Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/mm/init: Handle the special case of device private pages" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>]

On 5/30/25 21:59, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 07:54:32PM +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
>> On 5/28/25 08:59, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>> On 5/28/25 02:55, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
>>>> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
>>>> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
>>>> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>>>>
>>>> To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
>>>>
>>>> git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
>>>> git checkout FETCH_HEAD
>>>> git cherry-pick -x 7170130e4c72ce0caa0cb42a1627c635cc262821
>>>> # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
>>>> git commit -s
>>>> git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025052750-fondness-revocable-a23b@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..
>>>>
>>>> Possible dependencies:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> We only need it if 7ffb791423c7 gets backported. I can take a look and see if we need the patch and why the application of the patch failed
>>>
>>> Balbir
>>>
>>
>> Hi, Greg
>>
>> FYI: I was able to cherry pick 7170130e4c72ce0caa0cb42a1627c635cc262821 on top of
>> 5.15.y (5.15.184) on my machine
>>
>> I ran the steps below
>>
>>>> git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
>>>> git checkout FETCH_HEAD
>>>> git cherry-pick -x 7170130e4c72ce0caa0cb42a1627c635cc262821
>>
>> I saw no conflicts. Am I missing something?
> 
> Did you test build it as the instructions above asked you to do?
> 
> Try it and see what happens :)

I stopped after cherry-pick, I thought the patch failed to apply as in cherry-pick failed :)
So I did not try and build it. 

Balbir Singh