From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757469AbcCaX7g (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:59:36 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39362 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753424AbcCaX7f (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:59:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:59:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in hv_need_to_signal_on_read() Message-ID: <20160331235933.GA10232@kroah.com> References: <1458780816-4328-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1458780837-4367-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1458780837-4367-3-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1458780837-4367-3-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 05:53:53PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > We need to issue a full memory barrier prior making a signalling decision. > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > --- > drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) why is this burried in a 7 patch series? Don't you want this in 4.6-final? Please break this out into a separate patch, and redo this series. thanks, greg k-h