Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes

Michal Hocko
2018-04-17T14:22:46Z

On Tue 17-04-18 13:39:33, Sasha Levin wrote:
[...]
> But mm/ commits don't come only from these people. Here's a concrete
> example we can discuss:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c61611f70958d86f659bca25c02ae69413747a8d

I would be really careful. Because that reqiures to audit all callers to
be compliant with the change. This is just _too_ easy to backport
without noticing a failure. Now consider the other side. Is there any
real bug report backing this? This behavior was like that for quite some
time but I do not remember any actual bug report and the changelog
doesn't mention one either. It is about theoretical problem.

So if this was to be merged to stable then the changelog should contain
a big fat warning about the existing users and how they should be
checked.

Besides that I can see Reviewed-by: akpm and Andrew is usually very
careful about stable backports so there probably _was_ a reson to
exclude stable.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs