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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:44:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216084435.GQ6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216070837.GA5972@X58A-UD3R>

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 04:08:37PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:25:03PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:14:44AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > So the reason I didn't mark them for stable is that they were non
> > > trivial, however they've been in for a while now and nothing broke, so I
> > > suppose backporting them isn't a problem.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > What do you think about the way to solve this oops problem? Could you just
> > give your opinion of the way? Or ack or nack about this backporting?
> 
> Or would it be better to create a new simple patch with which we can solve
> the oops problem, because your patch is too complicated to backport to
> stable tree? What do you think about that?

I would prefer just backporting existing stuff, we know that works.

A separate patch for stable doesn't make sense to me; you get extra
chances for fail and a divergent code-base.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05  8:52 [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-12  8:47   ` Byungchul Park
2016-01-12 10:21   ` Willy Tarreau
2016-01-25  7:25   ` Byungchul Park
2016-02-16  7:08     ` Byungchul Park
2016-02-16  8:44       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-02-16 17:42         ` Greg KH
2016-02-17  0:11           ` Byungchul Park
2016-02-17  0:41             ` Greg KH
2016-02-17  2:00               ` Byungchul Park
2016-02-17  3:01                 ` Greg KH
2016-02-17  3:02                 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-23 21:05                   ` Ben Hutchings
2016-02-23 21:06                   ` Ben Hutchings
2016-01-05  9:16 ` [PATCH for v3.14.58 1/7] sched: Clean up idle task SMP logic Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:16   ` [PATCH for v3.14.58 2/7] sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:16   ` [PATCH for v3.14.58 3/7] sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed() Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:16   ` [PATCH for v3.14.58 4/7] sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task() Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:16   ` [PATCH for v3.14.58 5/7] sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:16   ` [PATCH for v3.14.58 6/7] sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task() Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:16   ` [PATCH for v3.14.58 7/7] sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:24 ` [PATCH for v3.18.25 1/6] sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:24   ` [PATCH for v3.18.25 2/6] sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed() Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:24   ` [PATCH for v3.18.25 3/6] sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task() Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:24   ` [PATCH for v3.18.25 4/6] sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:24   ` [PATCH for v3.18.25 5/6] sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task() Byungchul Park
2016-01-05  9:24   ` [PATCH for v3.18.25 6/6] sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks Byungchul Park
2016-03-01  8:15 ` [STABLE] kernel oops which can be fixed by peterz's patches Greg KH
2016-07-18  6:31   ` Byungchul Park
2016-07-18 12:09     ` Greg KH
2016-07-18 23:59       ` Byungchul Park
2016-06-13 18:31 ` Ben Hutchings

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