Re: Request to backport 4929a4e6faa0 to stable tree

[Xuewei Zhang <xueweiz@google.com>]

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 3:57 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Xuewei Zhang wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 6:11 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 03:30:05PM -0800, Xuewei Zhang wrote:
> > > > Backport patch that cleanly applies for 4.19, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4 stable trees:
> > >
> > > Did you send this twice?
> >
> > Yes, sorry it's by accident.
> >
> > >
> > > And the patch is totally corrupted:
> > >
> > > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > > index f77fcd37b226..f0abb8fe0ae9 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > > @@ -4868,20 +4868,28 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart
> > > > sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
> > > >   if (++count > 3) {
> > > >   u64 new, old = ktime_to_ns(cfs_b->period);
> > > >
> > > > - new = (old * 147) / 128; /* ~115% */
> > > > - new = min(new, max_cfs_quota_period);
> > > > -
> > > > - cfs_b->period = ns_to_ktime(new);
> > > > -
> > >
> > > All of your leading whitespace is gone.
> > >
> > > You can't use the web client of gmail to send patches inline, sorry.
> > >
> > > Can you fix this up and resend all of the backports, none of these
> > > worked :(
> >
> > Sorry for the formatting problem Greg.
> >
> > I just used `git send-email` to sent out the backports. They are at:
> > v4.19: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347573.html
> > v4.14: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347576.html
> > v4.9: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347577.html
> > v4.4: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347578.html
> > v3.16: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347579.html
> >
> > Hopefully that could work for you. But if they are still broken somehow
> > (for which I'd be very sorry), you could consider cherry-picking the patch
> > from my Github repository (forked from yours):
>
> Those worked just fine from the emails you just sent (note, try using
> lore.kernel.org instead of other mail archives, as I could not pull a
> patch out of spinics.net).
>
> I'll let Ben take the 3.16 version, as he handles that tree.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thanks a lot Greg!

I will use lore.kernel.org next time. Thanks for the tips!

Best regards,
Xuewei