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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C76C25B06 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232284AbiHJMyu (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:54:50 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48430 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229611AbiHJMyk (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:54:40 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [145.40.68.75]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A096483F3D; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5330DB81C67; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 76F2DC433D6; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:54:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1660136077; bh=uPLuF+DDW04LT9gSOZbFu31bMHZHY7AuwxnDEymETPY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=UNkY0zZ/dvbVjljh7EO1ErSs2YeEMilfLO5c7AcIqM6C1wcyaDC45s2CAW4+v+5bm aSZTtEljP0xweM/nDWXYsXgAGq/7xNaMyvKwesvewAHqmg1qJ58a7fWwmZ2C2n+tlo KD8eRKVStYwt20VObVfv4seCARLA42wybbg5rK9E= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:54:34 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Cc: Evan Green , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Ard Biesheuvel , Andrew Morton , bhe@redhat.com, Petr Mladek , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, halves@canonical.com, fabiomirmar@gmail.com, alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com, Andy Shevchenko , Arnd Bergmann , Borislav Petkov , Jonathan Corbet , d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dyoung@redhat.com, feng.tang@intel.com, mikelley@microsoft.com, hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, jgross@suse.com, john.ogness@linutronix.de, Kees Cook , luto@kernel.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, paulmck@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org, Alan Stern , Thomas Gleixner , vgoyal@redhat.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, Will Deacon , David Gow , Julius Werner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] firmware: google: Test spinlock on panic path to avoid lockups Message-ID: References: <20220719195325.402745-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220719195325.402745-4-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <019ae735-3d69-cb4e-c003-b83cc8cd76f8@igalia.com> <55a074a0-ca3a-8afc-4336-e40cff757394@igalia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55a074a0-ca3a-8afc-4336-e40cff757394@igalia.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 12:37:46PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > Let me clarify / ask something: this series, for example, is composed as > a bunch of patches "centered" around the same idea, panic notifiers > improvements/fixes. But its patches belong to completely different > subsystems, like EFI/misc, architectures (alpha, parisc, arm), core > kernel code, etc. > > What is the best way of getting this merged? > (a) Re-send individual patches with the respective Review/ACK tags to > the proper subsystem, or; Yes. > (b) Wait until the whole series is ACKed/Reviewed, and a single > maintainer (like you or Andrew, for example) would pick the whole series > and apply at once, even if it spans across multiple parts of the kernel? No, only do this after a kernel release cycle happens and there are straggler patches that did not get picked up by the relevant subsystem maintainers. thanks, greg k-h