From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 00:28:10 +0100 From: David Sterba To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sasha Levin , Jiri Kosina , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 026/114] btrfs: cleaner_kthread() doesnt need explicit freeze Message-ID: <20181108232809.GI24115@suse.cz> Reply-To: dsterba@suse.cz References: <20181108215059.051093652@linuxfoundation.org> <20181108215101.483013816@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181108215101.483013816@linuxfoundation.org> List-ID: On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 01:50:41PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > [ Upstream commit 838fe1887765f4cc679febea60d87d2a06bd300e ] Please check the discussion under https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181025141705.213937-8-sashal@kernel.org/ Jiri's reply: "This patch just removes pointless try_to_freeze(), that's guaranteed not to do anything and return immediately, as the btrfs kthread is not freezable. So I don't think it's needed in stable; the semantics is equivalent before and after." Sasha was fine with dropping the patch from stable candidates and this has not changed. Thanks.