From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Stefan Bader" <stefan.bader@canonical.com>,
"Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>,
"Michele Ballabio" <barra_cuda@katamail.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"David Cohen" <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -stable] x86,preempt: Fix preemption for i386
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 16:56:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140513235659.GC29623@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140409193845.GB26782@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:19:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:36:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm not entirely clear on how acceptable it is to propose a different
> > > > patch for -stable than what we have upstream.
> > >
> > > It's not all that common, but it certainly happens.
> > >
> > > It's fine, as long as it mentions the commits that fix it upstream.
> > > And as long as it's well tested, of course.
> >
> > I agree, I can take this as long as you say it's correct and tested...
>
> As far as I understand the issue the patch is indeed correct and I have
> 3 independent people who confirm their previously reported issues are
> now cured (as testified by the Tested-by tags).
>
> There has also been confirmation that upstream does no longer suffer the
> problem.
Now applied, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-13 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-06 15:19 Bisected KVM hang on x86-32 between v3.12 and v3.13 Michele Ballabio
2014-04-06 15:52 ` Toralf Förster
2014-04-06 17:40 ` Michele Ballabio
2014-04-07 15:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 15:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 18:16 ` Toralf Förster
2014-04-07 18:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-08 12:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-08 19:14 ` Michele Ballabio
2014-04-08 19:51 ` Michele Ballabio
2014-04-08 20:28 ` Toralf Förster
2014-04-09 9:14 ` Stefan Bader
2014-04-09 9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-09 14:24 ` [PATCH -stable] x86,preempt: Fix preemption for i386 Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-09 14:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-09 19:19 ` Greg KH
2014-04-09 19:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-09 19:57 ` Greg KH
2014-05-13 23:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-04-07 18:59 ` Bisected KVM hang on x86-32 between v3.12 and v3.13 Frederic Weisbecker
2014-04-07 19:57 ` Toralf Förster
2014-04-07 22:43 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-04-07 19:49 ` Michele Ballabio
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