From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com,
jasowang@redhat.com, decui@microsoft.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup hv_post_message()
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:26:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140829082636.GB11445@sucs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409275793-28511-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 06:29:52PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Minimize failures in this function by pre-allocating the buffer
> for posting messages. The hypercall for posting the message can fail
> for a number of reasons:
>
<snip>
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Is this patch useful for all longterm (2.6.32.63, 3.2.62, 3.4.103,
3.10.53, 3.12.27, 3.14.17) in addition to stable (3.16.1) kernels? I've
noticed some other LKML messages sometimes have the following (but there
doesn't seem to be a standard):
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+
--
Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-29 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 1:29 [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Miscellaneous cleanup K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-08-29 1:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup hv_post_message() K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-08-29 1:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Properly protect calls to smp_processor_id() K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-08-29 8:26 ` Sitsofe Wheeler [this message]
2014-08-29 8:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Miscellaneous cleanup Sitsofe Wheeler
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