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From: Dakshaja Uppalapati <dakshaja@chelsio.com>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: eduard@hasenleithner.at, kbusch@kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@chelsio.com>,
	Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nvme] nvme: Revert "nvme: Discard workaround for non-conformant devices"
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 12:06:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200604063638.GA15118@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b58318c-fc41-66b9-b4d2-868d832392bb@grimberg.me>

On Wednesday, June 06/03/20, 2020 at 14:20:01 -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> > > > Err, why?  Please send an actual bug report with details of your
> > > > setup.
> > > 
> > > Hi Christoph,
> > > 
> > > Here is the link describing the issue initially reported for upstream
> > > kernel 5.5:
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/CH2PR12MB40053A64681EFA3E6F63FDFBDD2A0@CH2PR12MB4005.namprd12.prod.outlook.com/
> > > 
> > > Issue is later fixed with upstream commit b716e688.
> > 
> > We are talking about two different things here.  One is the Linux NVMe
> > host code that can be used with lots of different controllers.  Many of
> > them are PCIe controller, especially cheap ones.
> > 
> > The other is the Linux NVMe target code.  So if a fix for very common
> > PCIe controller trigger a bug in the target code there is no 1:1
> > relationship as even if you are talking to a Linux fabrics controller
> > it usually runs a different kernel version on a different system.
> > 
> > That being said you can always backport that fix as well, which probably
> > is a good idea as it fixes a real bug.
> > 
> > Nevermind that nothing in your revert patch indicated it wasn't for
> > mainline.
> 
> Agree..

Just to confirm that I got it right, Do you want me to send all 6 patches 
(fix and dependent patches) to stable?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-04  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03  9:18 [PATCH nvme] nvme: Revert "nvme: Discard workaround for non-conformant devices" Dakshaja Uppalapati
2020-06-03 13:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-03 16:17   ` Dakshaja Uppalapati
2020-06-03 16:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-03 21:20       ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-06-04  6:36         ` Dakshaja Uppalapati [this message]
2020-09-04 11:34           ` Greg KH
2020-06-05 13:43 ` Greg KH
2020-06-08  6:35   ` Dakshaja Uppalapati
2020-06-08 15:05     ` Keith Busch
2020-06-11 16:08       ` Dakshaja Uppalapati

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