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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76529C433EF for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541F56120D for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S241304AbhIPWyY (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:54:24 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50758 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S241276AbhIPWyY (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:54:24 -0400 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [IPv6:2a0a:51c0:0:12e:550::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A965C061574; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:53:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Gleixner DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1631832780; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=+uoRd7sICB9PTbOq5EWEwT9s8dxxMBDK5Hxzn1p0B2M=; b=1EHh+jTMSzgz8I5umosdei/hjB4deVd+HjIXpER0jj3a9UJvUTmYCG3sktt+mmgogjx4i5 5D+TvgjsSbkOi2gRWJ9m/L2PsSXPUDA0fNBCaeyAQa5oIj2aZ0g7IpYrWYv2xoW3jpCr8W aEJLiY9J4es14JJ3Fuu2PLS1+FTJ0bE2cZpBoUg9o8Wfp16oVUcyT6k2JW56IzITAd1Qss dQHpUZYX/miD+m+QAFEvKHKOuPh3ii1buJhETb4Jo0E4cAcKIm9FXERVj2dXTWlNHeyUHk iAw/eFYYzJOa1pzYeAEHGABTxJs2LapYK4cztyOfWpa2A2nA74K18B2uCKyc+Q== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1631832780; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=+uoRd7sICB9PTbOq5EWEwT9s8dxxMBDK5Hxzn1p0B2M=; b=vtwgGlcj3bLHRjLYNI/SunfOnn6jEEhRquuMedQEImsrPfPUPG9QhrJlsPjoht0r0FiHu4 T9zSULifH9VCAfCg== To: Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "# 3.4.x" , Lukas Hannen Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.14 298/334] time: Handle negative seconds correctly in timespec64_to_ns() In-Reply-To: <874kak9moe.ffs@tglx> References: <20210913131113.390368911@linuxfoundation.org> <20210913131123.500712780@linuxfoundation.org> <874kak9moe.ffs@tglx> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:53:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87y27w875f.ffs@tglx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 17 2021 at 00:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > I usually spend quite some time on tagging patches for stable and it's > annoying me that this patch got reverted while stuff which I explicitely > did not tag for stable got backported for whatever reason and completely > against the stable rules: > > 627ef5ae2df8 ("hrtimer: Avoid double reprogramming in __hrtimer_start_range_ns()") > > What the heck qualifies this to be backported? > > 1) It's hot of the press and just got merged in the 5.15-rc1 merge > window and is not tagged for stable > > 2) https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > clearly states the rules but obviously our new fangled "AI" driven > approach to select patches for stable is blissfully ignorant of > these rules. I assume that AI stands for "Artifical Ignorance' here. > > I already got a private bug report vs. that on 5.10.65. Annoyingly > 5.10.5 does not have the issue despite the fact that the resulting diff 5.14.5 obviously... > between those two versions in hrtimer.c is just in comments. > > Bah! > > Thanks, > > tglx