From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BC9C4360F for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89482075C for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:56:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1552395362; bh=HTw32ICmUS6/OkVq9cu+3LMLNyUDmjek2zM8KY6ylbw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=kkH2DG7/8d5k7lHoG+Y6d3atH1nq2HcIHBucYtmnxPMgQdV7IZZur8yjTevdtiCaK 3NutR51x5VuiWvIeXhRVR2+awGJelbwflUiP0Ep3a+X+8FdyA9tcC8Uj/vk++/LGFZ zprKf9RYREKPqZs+3iAmwqjKh2G7/1HWcDhkvtUY= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726600AbfCLM4B (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:56:01 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41326 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725873AbfCLM4B (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:56:01 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [12.27.65.221]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6069206BA; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:56:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1552395360; bh=HTw32ICmUS6/OkVq9cu+3LMLNyUDmjek2zM8KY6ylbw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=E4klf6XK3Rl89gF91Jr4odFri1VCV81ryQxBfe5gUji8qOXGOENRfD283nxfOBKkN qd1udgYtMIBwVRnwFKuwoiEeciFWGFS8RRETIP73V3jad4yiBQjaWDRH3g/fEC4JlB zWWRza2AtulUB6ebdH6piU+/EjtimIWYNeTd1iRA= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 05:56:00 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dongli Zhang Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, jgross@suse.com, herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com, sstabellini@kernel.org, sboyd@kernel.org, frederic@kernel.org, joe.jin@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.stultz@linaro.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4.9 1/1] jiffies: use jiffies64_to_nsecs() to fix 100% steal usage for xen vcpu hotplug Message-ID: <20190312125600.GF23540@kroah.com> References: <1551772744-524-1-git-send-email-dongli.zhang@oracle.com> <15c804c0-eeb1-2adb-9cbf-4a28d39983a0@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15c804c0-eeb1-2adb-9cbf-4a28d39983a0@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:35:40PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote: > Thanks to Joe Jin's reminding, this patch is applicable to mainline linux > kernel, although there is no issue due to this kind of bug in mainline kernel. > > Therefore, can I first submit this patch to mainline kernel and then backport it > to stable linux with more detailed explanation how the issue is reproduced on xen? Yes, please do that. thanks, greg k-h