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[109.26.222.94]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w17sm5812390wra.34.2019.10.31.15.56.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16 47/47] KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed To: Joe Perches , Ben Hutchings , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov , Like Xu References: <220d8f2c1b299d2e71fdcf50b98286aae5b0c6f2.camel@perches.com> <05be6a70382f1990a2ba6aba9ac75dac0c55f7fb.camel@decadent.org.uk> <3078d0a186cca2dfae741908ffff41f1bdb30eae.camel@perches.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <35a63ec6-234b-3dda-fbbc-df344e97e468@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:56:52 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3078d0a186cca2dfae741908ffff41f1bdb30eae.camel@perches.com> Content-Language: en-US X-MC-Unique: 3ZOH7PXIMnKMRgLfr2sItg-1 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 31/10/19 23:53, Joe Perches wrote: > I think not, but hey, maybe you and Greg do. >=20 > Porting enhancements, even trivial ones, imo is > not a great thing for stable branches. >=20 > My perspective is that only bug fixes should be > applied to stable branches. >=20 > cheers, Joe I agree this is borderline. The main reason why I applied is that I get occasional bug reports about it even from experienced Linux developers, probably because the printk_once hides the message on systems that have been up for a while. Paolo