Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"

Sasha Levin
2018-12-12T17:43:33Z

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:59:39PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>On (12/12/18 14:36), Petr Mladek wrote:
>> > OK, really didn't know that! I wasn't Cc-ed on that AUTOSEL email,
>> > and I wasn't Cc-ed on this whole discussion and found it purely
>> > accidentally while browsing linux-mm list.
>>
>> I am sorry that I did not CC you. There were so many people in CC.
>> I expected that all people mentioned in the related commit message
>> were included by default.
>
>No worries! I'm not blaming anyone.
>
>> > So if you are willing to backport this set to -stable, then I wouldn't
>> > mind, probably would be more correct if we don't advertise this as a
>> > "panic() deadlock fix"
>>
>> This should not be a problem. I guess that stable does not modify
>> the original commit messages unless there is a change.
>
>Agreed.

I'll be happy to add anything you want to the commit message. Do you
have a blurb you want to use?

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Thanks,
Sasha