From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753093AbaH2I0o (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:26:44 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:50718 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752950AbaH2I0m (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:26:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:26:36 +0100 From: Sitsofe Wheeler To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 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() Message-ID: <20140829082636.GB11445@sucs.org> References: <1409275773-28472-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1409275793-28511-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1409275793-28511-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: > > > Cc: 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/