From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672BEC6778C for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 06:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25ADA2417D for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 06:03:10 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 25ADA2417D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ellerman.id.au Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753062AbeGEGDH (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2018 02:03:07 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.11.71.1]:46027 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751811AbeGEGDF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2018 02:03:05 -0400 Received: from authenticated.ozlabs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41LnMm2jJCz9s2R; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:03:00 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ellerman.id.au From: Michael Ellerman To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Vlastimil Babka Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , akpm@linux-foundation.org, dave.hansen@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, shakeelb@google.com, shuah@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.16 234/279] x86/pkeys/selftests: Adjust the self-test to fresh distros that export the pkeys ABI In-Reply-To: <20180703114241.GA19730@kroah.com> References: <20180618080608.851973560@linuxfoundation.org> <20180618080618.495174114@linuxfoundation.org> <20180703114241.GA19730@kroah.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:03:00 +1000 Message-ID: <877emakynf.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg Kroah-Hartman writes: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:36:43PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> On 06/18/2018 10:13 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> > 4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> So I was wondering, why backport such a considerable number of >> *selftests* to stable, given the stable policy? Surely selftests don't >> affect the kernel itself breaking for users? > > These came in as part of Sasha's "backport fixes" tool. It can't hurt > to add selftest fixes/updates to stable kernels, as for some people, > they only run the selftests for the specific kernel they are building. > While others run selftests for the latest kernel on older kernels, both > of which are valid ways of testing. I don't have a problem with these sort of patches being backported, but it seems like Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.txt could use an update? I honestly don't know what the rules are anymore. cheers