* Re: mmiotrace fixes in stable kernels
2016-04-25 7:39 ` mmiotrace fixes in stable kernels Ingo Molnar
@ 2016-04-25 10:49 ` karol herbst
2016-05-02 18:44 ` Greg KH
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From: karol herbst @ 2016-04-25 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ingo Molnar; +Cc: stable kernel team
Well I use the patch on top of 4.5 on my system and I know it works on
4.4, because other tested it there, too.
Karol
2016-04-25 9:39 GMT+02:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>:
>
> (Greg Cc:-ed)
>
> * karol herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am sure this is the only one, but I never checked if anything else
>> is needed. Maybe to be sure it would be safe to just add it to 4.5 and
>> 4.4, because I am sure it works there without needing anything else
>> and most distributions have already packages for 4.4 or newer.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Karol
>>
>> 2016-04-23 13:05 GMT+02:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>:
>> >
>> > * karol herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Ingo,
>> >>
>> >> thanks for merging my mmiotrace fix :) As it seems it helps quite a
>> >> lot and I was wondering if it would be able to merge the fix for older
>> >> kernels as well.
>> >
>> > Sure. Do we only need:
>> >
>> > cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")
>> >
>> > ... or are other fixes necessary as well?
>
> Ok.
>
> Greg, mind picking up upstream commit:
>
> cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")
>
> for -stable v4.3, v4.4 and v4.5? I checked that it cherry-picked fine. (I have not
> performed a functional test on the other hand, maybe Karol wants to do that?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
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2016-04-25 7:39 ` mmiotrace fixes in stable kernels Ingo Molnar
2016-04-25 10:49 ` karol herbst
@ 2016-05-02 18:44 ` Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2016-05-02 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ingo Molnar; +Cc: karol herbst, stable kernel team
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:39:51AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> (Greg Cc:-ed)
>
> * karol herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am sure this is the only one, but I never checked if anything else
> > is needed. Maybe to be sure it would be safe to just add it to 4.5 and
> > 4.4, because I am sure it works there without needing anything else
> > and most distributions have already packages for 4.4 or newer.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Karol
> >
> > 2016-04-23 13:05 GMT+02:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>:
> > >
> > > * karol herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Ingo,
> > >>
> > >> thanks for merging my mmiotrace fix :) As it seems it helps quite a
> > >> lot and I was wondering if it would be able to merge the fix for older
> > >> kernels as well.
> > >
> > > Sure. Do we only need:
> > >
> > > cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")
> > >
> > > ... or are other fixes necessary as well?
>
> Ok.
>
> Greg, mind picking up upstream commit:
>
> cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")
>
> for -stable v4.3, v4.4 and v4.5? I checked that it cherry-picked fine. (I have not
> performed a functional test on the other hand, maybe Karol wants to do that?)
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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