Re: Request to backport 4929a4e6faa0 to stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Xuewei Zhang wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 6:11 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 03:30:05PM -0800, Xuewei Zhang wrote:
> > > Backport patch that cleanly applies for 4.19, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4 stable trees:
> >
> > Did you send this twice?
> 
> Yes, sorry it's by accident.
> 
> >
> > And the patch is totally corrupted:
> >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > index f77fcd37b226..f0abb8fe0ae9 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > > @@ -4868,20 +4868,28 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart
> > > sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
> > >   if (++count > 3) {
> > >   u64 new, old = ktime_to_ns(cfs_b->period);
> > >
> > > - new = (old * 147) / 128; /* ~115% */
> > > - new = min(new, max_cfs_quota_period);
> > > -
> > > - cfs_b->period = ns_to_ktime(new);
> > > -
> >
> > All of your leading whitespace is gone.
> >
> > You can't use the web client of gmail to send patches inline, sorry.
> >
> > Can you fix this up and resend all of the backports, none of these
> > worked :(
> 
> Sorry for the formatting problem Greg.
> 
> I just used `git send-email` to sent out the backports. They are at:
> v4.19: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347573.html
> v4.14: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347576.html
> v4.9: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347577.html
> v4.4: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347578.html
> v3.16: https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg347579.html
> 
> Hopefully that could work for you. But if they are still broken somehow
> (for which I'd be very sorry), you could consider cherry-picking the patch
> from my Github repository (forked from yours):

Those worked just fine from the emails you just sent (note, try using
lore.kernel.org instead of other mail archives, as I could not pull a
patch out of spinics.net).

I'll let Ben take the 3.16 version, as he handles that tree.

thanks,

greg k-h