From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D77D617D372; Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1718115144; cv=none; b=Mf8eI2aXGRBJSG22oUym2j2p+0laRBWKwds4p3XRLN5P9WxA6X6I65jc/5/I1vt0BBn6U0uu7iQea303zM0wMownMDRfhJFS2rbWcrJbQbqgSdp2Gzo2oO5Ws1n4Ybcyjs01vGjRWwVvfdhg8iuMHPPwYraNe6HH1DW2aCU/9R8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1718115144; c=relaxed/simple; bh=YY724BGhiyIEaylXd+UnLjm1nNWqWKv7YVra5OWy9Oo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=rXUkUe9FaZwQCHt0/WU0G6Ee6I80yuh9KRzcefGv9lu8Bh4GhDpY2s7tc3qIAZPo29lm8fmFO2Vtmf0MXW/CedsuBE1tEfj2p/WGB0o2CQQ/pGY+PEf88pAPvcXY6RF0Ab5oe/QddvuolH3tDiyJVSbrBnyuQqRqEMgnWndVUiE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 305C9C2BD10; Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:12:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:12:38 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Greg KH Cc: Vlastimil Babka , "Paul E. McKenney" , Julia Lawall , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "workflows@vger.kernel.org" , Thorsten Leemhuis Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] tracefs: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback Message-ID: <20240611101238.6db5e4a7@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <2024061143-transfer-jalapeno-afa0@gregkh> References: <20240609082726.32742-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> <20240609082726.32742-6-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> <20240610112223.151faf65@rorschach.local.home> <20240610163606.069d552a@gandalf.local.home> <70c093a5-df9c-4665-b9c9-90345c7f2139@suse.cz> <2024061143-transfer-jalapeno-afa0@gregkh> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.20.0git84 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:23:11 +0200 Greg KH wrote: > > Depends-on: c9929f0e344a ("mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB") > > Ick, no, use the documented way of handling this as described in the > stable kernel rules file. You mentioned this before, I guess you mean this: > To send additional instructions to the stable team, use a shell-style inline > comment to pass arbitrary or predefined notes: > > * Specify any additional patch prerequisites for cherry picking:: > > Cc: # 3.3.x: a1f84a3: sched: Check for idle > Cc: # 3.3.x: 1b9508f: sched: Rate-limit newidle > Cc: # 3.3.x: fd21073: sched: Fix affinity logic > Cc: # 3.3.x > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar > > The tag sequence has the meaning of:: > > git cherry-pick a1f84a3 > git cherry-pick 1b9508f > git cherry-pick fd21073 > git cherry-pick > > Note that for a patch series, you do not have to list as prerequisites the > patches present in the series itself. For example, if you have the following > patch series:: > > patch1 > patch2 > > where patch2 depends on patch1, you do not have to list patch1 as > prerequisite of patch2 if you have already marked patch1 for stable > inclusion. What's with the "3.3.x"? Isn't that obsolete? And honestly, I find the above much more "ick" than "Depends-on:". That's because I like to read human readable tags and not machine processing tags. I'm a human, not a machine. -- Steve