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From: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@linux.dev>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about one acpi-cpufreq commit
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:42:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <725da4b6-8ce8-d2d1-a9ce-cd8ca2e89fee@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YjHDv1UngGPGr0je@kroah.com>



On 3/16/22 7:02 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 04:56:11PM +0800, Guoqing Jiang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just found the commit in 5.10 stable kernel.
>>
>> stable-linux> git tag --sort=taggerdate --contain
>> 8a3fc32b322cc3081dd3569047c9834f496b4ab0 | head -1
>> v5.10.17
>>
>> commit 8a3fc32b322cc3081dd3569047c9834f496b4ab0
>> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>> Date:   Thu Feb 4 18:25:37 2021 +0100
>>
>>      cpufreq: ACPI: Extend frequency tables to cover boost frequencies
>>
>>      commit 3c55e94c0adea4a5389c4b80f6ae9927dd6a4501 upstream.
>>
>>     [ ... ]
>>
>>      Fixes: 41ea667227ba ("x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD
>> systems")
>>      Fixes: 976df7e5730e ("x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P
>> for frequency invariance on AMD EPYC")
>>      Fixes: db865272d9c4 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as
>> default with intel_pstate")
>>
>> Except db865272d9c4 was applied in v5.10-rc2, the others (41ea667227ba and
>> 976df7e5730e)
>> were first appeared in v5.11-rc1.
>>
>> linux> git tag --sort=taggerdate --contain 41ea667227ba | head -1
>> v5.11-rc1
>> linux> git tag --sort=taggerdate --contain 976df7e5730e | head -1
>> v5.11-rc1
>> linux> git tag --sort=taggerdate --contain db865272d9c4 | head -1
>> v5.10-rc2
>>
>> So I am wondering if the mentioned commit is suitable for 5.10 stable
>> kernel, or what am I missing?
> Is it causing a problem for you?  What is the issue with having it in
> the 5.10.y tree?

No.

I am trying to port 41ea667227ba and relevant commits to our kernel which
is based on 5.10 stable kernel, and I am being asked to port 3c55e94c0ade
per the fix tag after 41ea667227ba was added, then I was confused because
of conflict.

Thanks,
Guoqing

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-16 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-16  8:56 question about one acpi-cpufreq commit Guoqing Jiang
2022-03-16 11:02 ` Greg KH
2022-03-16 12:42   ` Guoqing Jiang [this message]
2022-03-16 12:53     ` Greg KH
2022-03-17 11:46       ` Guoqing Jiang

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