Re: Nomination of amdgpu fixes for stable backport

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:39:56AM +0200, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> 
> On 2018-08-16 5:54 p.m., Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 05:36:16PM +0200, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> >> On 2018-08-16 05:20 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 09:53:54AM +0200, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi stable kernel maintainers,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> please squash these amdgpu fixes together and backport them to all
> >>>> applicable stable branches:
> >>>
> >>> Nothing gets squashed, we apply individual patches :)
> >>
> >> That's a bit unfortunate in this case, as there can be spurious WARN
> >> splats with only the first fix.
> > 
> > That's fine, no one is going to only apply one of them.
> > 
> >>>> 15e6b76880e65be24250e30986084b5569b7a06f "drm/amdgpu: Warn and update
> >>>>                                           pin_size values when
> >>>>                                           destroying a pinned BO"
> >>>> 456607d816d89a442a3d5ec98b02c8bc950b5228 "drm/amdgpu: Don't warn on
> >>>>                                           destroying a pinned BO"
> >>>>
> >>>> (These depend on commits a5ccfe5c20740f2fbf00291490cdf8d2373ec255 and
> >>>> ddc21af4d0f37f42b33c54cb69b215997fe5b082, which already have Cc: stable)
> >>>
> >>> What stable tree(s) do you want these applied to?
> >>
> >> All active trees where they apply (and so do the patches they depend on).
> > 
> > A hint might be nice here, what trees did you test this on?
> 
> Is there a reason why these 4 fixes haven't been backported yet? People
> are running into the issues fixed by them.
> 
> There seem to be many other fixes under drivers/gpu/drm/ with Cc: stable
> which haven't been backported yet.

Ah, our emails crossed.  I just tried to apply these, but the original
ones all failed to apply :(

And I normally wait for the drm patches to go "last" for the stable
trees due to all of the merge issues they normally cause, like this :(

greg k-h