From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754579AbcBPIok (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2016 03:44:40 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45593 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754353AbcBPIoi (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2016 03:44:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:44:35 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Byungchul Park Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches Message-ID: <20160216084435.GQ6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20160105085211.GB3621@X58A-UD3R> <20160105091444.GZ6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160125072503.GB17836@X58A-UD3R> <20160216070837.GA5972@X58A-UD3R> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160216070837.GA5972@X58A-UD3R> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 04:08:37PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:25:03PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:14:44AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > So the reason I didn't mark them for stable is that they were non > > > trivial, however they've been in for a while now and nothing broke, so I > > > suppose backporting them isn't a problem. > > > > Hello, > > > > What do you think about the way to solve this oops problem? Could you just > > give your opinion of the way? Or ack or nack about this backporting? > > Or would it be better to create a new simple patch with which we can solve > the oops problem, because your patch is too complicated to backport to > stable tree? What do you think about that? I would prefer just backporting existing stuff, we know that works. A separate patch for stable doesn't make sense to me; you get extra chances for fail and a divergent code-base.