Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix bug causing crashes

From: Paolo Valente
Date: Tue Jul 04 2017 - 03:08:46 EST



> Il giorno 04 lug 2017, alle ore 00:49, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> On 07/03/2017 02:00 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>> I'm writing this short cover letter to hopefully help you decide what
>> to do with this patch, in this late phase of the development
>> cycle. This patch fixes a bug causing kernel crashes for at least
>> one year. Crashes apparently affect only a minority of users, but are
>> systematic for them (a crash every few tens of minutes for some).
>
> By the time you wrote that email, 4.12 was already released for hours.

Oops ...

> So there's really no choice this time but to queue it up for 4.13.
>

At least, no decision to make :)

Thanks,
Paolo

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> Jens Axboe
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