From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: w15303746062@163.com
Cc: louis.chauvet@bootlin.com, hamohammed.sa@gmail.com,
simona@ffwll.ch, melissa.srw@gmail.com,
maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, mripard@kernel.org,
tzimmermann@suse.de, airlied@gmail.com,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.18.y] drm/vkms: Fix ABBA deadlock in vblank disable and timer callback
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 17:09:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026051557-thermal-petite-7da0@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260515131826.388154-1-w15303746062@163.com>
On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 09:18:26PM +0800, w15303746062@163.com wrote:
> From: Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
>
> [Note: This patch addresses a legacy VKMS implementation deadlock specific
> to older stable trees (e.g., 6.18.y). Mainline has removed this code during
> the generic DRM_CRTC_VBLANK_TIMER_FUNCS refactoring.]
Why not apply those upstream commits here as well? No need to diverge
from Linus's tree, otherwise we will end up having a mess that nothing
can ever be backported to.
How many commits need to be backported? Have you tried?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-15 15:09 UTC|newest]
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2026-05-15 13:18 [PATCH 6.18.y] drm/vkms: Fix ABBA deadlock in vblank disable and timer callback w15303746062
2026-05-15 15:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-05-16 2:43 ` w15303746062
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