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 80C432E11D2; Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:51:50 +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=1777261910; cv=none; b=WrxyDn492FLJDnfg+KaxB6wpvIK9QiEDyV1j0vmXCj84oULHrH1XKPqhTHgit4R0TuE5UU6jcVAFCtHQJw4pMplIUVJEWrgqcbD+9RUOBqTQW0zH43RY/5SJ9us+bp+LXyMaMULYWZX3yoJ+HEYaNPjW++GBIIKuLkRdfKdZ9Y0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777261910; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Pg6XUODrdfT8x6SVOm/92QEhs4B1/dQMLI4JVCWBeX0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=P4pShH1ZwyNnBI8Zz7fCeYwtPMUJpgSrdcjU1lxla1yXAIf7iSzH5wAoWJ4hVOxh00/sCRWE6OnfIe3A448uFf3QOpnxKzCAeMTwE1Ibyqnryb2K3X50t5427yADKbHqQdYgYlRlardsv0gRMsXYBMdnoD+EteJSF2jZ58MZ3/U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=ESNQGdoj; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="ESNQGdoj" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5570DC19425; Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:51:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1777261910; bh=Pg6XUODrdfT8x6SVOm/92QEhs4B1/dQMLI4JVCWBeX0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=ESNQGdoj+aWIprEyqTgGSLUpXlQdmIPlutuefFcrRqV0H15RmrX8HsTp05zE6vxEE zaQmVUeuymea4PYf/ZdCPVl7fmaL7NZKNE5k9m+2lS9aCFSVp0JkO8PQDwLQWMlbvX 2/sZh3+iglfusL8lsOv/UkXWuPbsbOZ6jIUzZBCc= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:16:28 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel regressions list , LKML Subject: Re: the stuttering regression in 7.0: should I have done something different? Message-ID: <2026042656-exposure-crayon-a7c5@gregkh> References: <4dd98a32-d1d6-43de-910c-7e487503177e@leemhuis.info> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4dd98a32-d1d6-43de-910c-7e487503177e@leemhuis.info> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 06:30:24PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Linus, Greg, if you have a minute, please help me out with something I'm > wondering about: > > Should I have done something different wrt. to the periodic lockup aka > stuttering regression? The one quite a few users encountered, bisected, > and reported last week following the 7.0 release before it was fixed in > mainline & 7.0.1 during the first half of this week; see below for a > timeline of the whole thing. > > I'm not asking if this could have been prevented or if the developers > did anything wrong handling this. I ask because I want to do the right > thing if similar situations arise in the future to ensure they are > handled like you folks want them to. I think this went fine. It was caught properly, and fixed, and pushed out to users pretty quickly. We can't really ask for more :) thanks, greg k-h