From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965023AbcBQCAw (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:00:52 -0500 Received: from LGEAMRELO13.lge.com ([156.147.23.53]:44918 "EHLO lgeamrelo13.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964920AbcBQCAu (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:00:50 -0500 X-Original-SENDERIP: 156.147.1.127 X-Original-MAILFROM: byungchul.park@lge.com X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.222.33 X-Original-MAILFROM: byungchul.park@lge.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:00:08 +0900 From: Byungchul Park To: Greg KH Cc: Peter Zijlstra , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches Message-ID: <20160217020008.GC5972@X58A-UD3R> References: <20160105085211.GB3621@X58A-UD3R> <20160105091444.GZ6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160125072503.GB17836@X58A-UD3R> <20160216070837.GA5972@X58A-UD3R> <20160216084435.GQ6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160216174212.GB10487@kroah.com> <20160217001103.GB5972@X58A-UD3R> <20160217004139.GC3037@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160217004139.GC3037@kroah.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 Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 04:41:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:11:03AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:42:12AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:44:35AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > I agree, I REALLY don't want to take patches that are not > > > identical-as-much-as-possible to what is in Linus's tree, because almost > > > every time we do, the patch is broken in some way. > > > > I also agree and got it. Then could you check if this backporting is done > > properly? > > What backporting of what to where by whom? > > Come on, someone needs to actually send in some patches, in the correct > format, before anyone can do anything with them... I am sorry for not ccing you when I sent the patches at first. (I didn't know I should do it.) There are the patches in this thread. Refer to, https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/5/60 Thanks, Byungchul > > greg k-h