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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, jgross@suse.com,
	herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com, sstabellini@kernel.org,
	sboyd@kernel.org, frederic@kernel.org, joe.jin@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.stultz@linaro.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4.9 1/1] jiffies: use jiffies64_to_nsecs() to fix 100% steal usage for xen vcpu hotplug
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 05:56:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190312125600.GF23540@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15c804c0-eeb1-2adb-9cbf-4a28d39983a0@oracle.com>

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:35:40PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> Thanks to Joe Jin's reminding, this patch is applicable to mainline linux
> kernel, although there is no issue due to this kind of bug in mainline kernel.
> 
> Therefore, can I first submit this patch to mainline kernel and then backport it
> to stable linux with more detailed explanation how the issue is reproduced on xen?

Yes, please do that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-05  7:59 [PATCH v4.9 1/1] jiffies: use jiffies64_to_nsecs() to fix 100% steal usage for xen vcpu hotplug Dongli Zhang
2019-03-06  7:35 ` [Xen-devel] " Dongli Zhang
2019-03-12 12:56   ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-03-12 23:44     ` Dongli Zhang

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