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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Fix a deadlock that only affects 5.4
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:52:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407065210.GA263852@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407062622.6443-1-sultan@kerneltoast.com>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:26:21PM -0700, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> From: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There's a mutex lock deadlock in i915 that only affects 5.4, but was fixed in
> 5.5. Normally, I would send a backport of the fix from 5.5, but the patch set
> that fixes the deadlock involves massive changes that are neither feasible nor
> desirable for backporting [1][2][3]. Therefore, I've made a small patch that
> only addresses the deadlock specifically for 5.4.

This paragraph needs to go into the patch itself, otherwise just looking
at that doesn't make any sense.

And you do not need a cover letter for a single patch.

Please fix up and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Fix a deadlock that only affects 5.4
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:52:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407065210.GA263852@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407062622.6443-1-sultan@kerneltoast.com>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:26:21PM -0700, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> From: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There's a mutex lock deadlock in i915 that only affects 5.4, but was fixed in
> 5.5. Normally, I would send a backport of the fix from 5.5, but the patch set
> that fixes the deadlock involves massive changes that are neither feasible nor
> desirable for backporting [1][2][3]. Therefore, I've made a small patch that
> only addresses the deadlock specifically for 5.4.

This paragraph needs to go into the patch itself, otherwise just looking
at that doesn't make any sense.

And you do not need a cover letter for a single patch.

Please fix up and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h
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dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
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WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Fix a deadlock that only affects 5.4
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:52:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407065210.GA263852@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407062622.6443-1-sultan@kerneltoast.com>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:26:21PM -0700, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> From: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There's a mutex lock deadlock in i915 that only affects 5.4, but was fixed in
> 5.5. Normally, I would send a backport of the fix from 5.5, but the patch set
> that fixes the deadlock involves massive changes that are neither feasible nor
> desirable for backporting [1][2][3]. Therefore, I've made a small patch that
> only addresses the deadlock specifically for 5.4.

This paragraph needs to go into the patch itself, otherwise just looking
at that doesn't make any sense.

And you do not need a cover letter for a single patch.

Please fix up and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h
_______________________________________________
Intel-gfx mailing list
Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07  6:26 [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Fix a deadlock that only affects 5.4 Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-07  6:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait() Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-14  8:13   ` Chris Wilson
2020-04-14  8:13     ` [Intel-gfx] " Chris Wilson
2020-04-14  8:13     ` Chris Wilson
2020-04-14 14:52     ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-14 14:52       ` [Intel-gfx] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-14 14:52       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-07  6:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-04-07  6:52   ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Fix a deadlock that only affects 5.4 Greg KH
2020-04-07  6:52   ` Greg KH
2020-04-07  7:18   ` [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait() Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-07 20:32     ` [PATCH v3] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-11 11:39       ` Patch "drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait()" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree gregkh
2020-04-11 11:39         ` [Intel-gfx] " gregkh
2020-04-11 11:59       ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for Patch "drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait()" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree (rev2) Patchwork
2020-04-10  9:08     ` [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait() Greg KH
2020-04-10  9:08       ` [Intel-gfx] " Greg KH
2020-04-10  9:08       ` Greg KH
2020-04-10 14:15       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-10 14:15         ` [Intel-gfx] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-10 14:15         ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-10 14:17       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-10 14:17         ` [Intel-gfx] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-10 14:17         ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-11 11:39         ` Greg KH
2020-04-11 11:39           ` [Intel-gfx] " Greg KH
2020-04-11 11:39           ` Greg KH
2020-04-14  8:15           ` Chris Wilson
2020-04-14  8:15             ` [Intel-gfx] " Chris Wilson
2020-04-14  8:15             ` Chris Wilson
2020-04-14  8:23             ` Greg KH
2020-04-14  8:23               ` [Intel-gfx] " Greg KH
2020-04-14  8:23               ` Greg KH
2020-04-20  9:02               ` Joonas Lahtinen
2020-04-20  9:02                 ` [Intel-gfx] " Joonas Lahtinen
2020-04-20  9:02                 ` Joonas Lahtinen
2020-04-20 15:42                 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-20 15:42                   ` [Intel-gfx] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-20 15:42                   ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-21  8:04                   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2020-04-21  8:04                     ` [Intel-gfx] " Joonas Lahtinen
2020-04-21  8:04                     ` Joonas Lahtinen
2020-04-21 16:38                     ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-21 16:38                       ` [Intel-gfx] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-21 16:38                       ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-21 20:55                       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-04-21 20:55                         ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-04-21 20:55                         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-04-14 14:35             ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-14 14:35               ` [Intel-gfx] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-14 14:35               ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-04-10 11:46     ` Patch "drm/i915: Fix ref->mutex deadlock in i915_active_wait()" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree gregkh
2020-04-10 11:46       ` [Intel-gfx] " gregkh
2020-04-10 11:56     ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for " Patchwork

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