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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: alexander.levin@microsoft.com, brianp@vmware.com,
	syeh@vmware.com, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "drm/vmwgfx: Unpin the screen object backup buffer when not used" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 09:57:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180528075740.GB3339@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e12e6596-ffdd-0a52-2d4e-f176db0d7d52@vmware.com>

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 08:50:56PM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> On 05/27/2018 06:27 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 06:15:50PM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > On 05/27/2018 04:32 PM, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > > 
> > > >       drm/vmwgfx: Unpin the screen object backup buffer when not used
> > > > 
> > > > I got an identical message on May 2nd that this patch was added to the 4.16
> > > > and 4.14 stable trees. Now there is a small but important fix to this patch
> > > > so I CC'd it to stable assuming that this patch was already in those
> > > > versions.
> > > > 
> > > > Fix is "drm/vmwgfx: Set dmabuf_size_when vmw_dmabuf_init is successful" by
> > > > Deepak Rawat.
> > > > 
> > > > It's correct to have both this patch and its fix in stable.
> > Thanks for letting me know.  The original set of patches all got dropped
> > due to problems with the larger patch series.
> > 
> > But I can't seem find the above mentioned patch in Linus's git tree, do
> > you know what the git commit id is for it?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> It's
> 
> 91ba9f28a3

Odd I didn't include that one before.  Anyway, thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-28  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <152743156983114@kroah.com>
2018-05-27 16:15 ` Patch "drm/vmwgfx: Unpin the screen object backup buffer when not used" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree Thomas Hellstrom
2018-05-27 16:27   ` Greg KH
2018-05-27 18:50     ` Thomas Hellstrom
2018-05-28  7:57       ` Greg KH [this message]

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