Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 12:43:38 EST


On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:59:39PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
On (12/12/18 14:36), Petr Mladek wrote:
> OK, really didn't know that! I wasn't Cc-ed on that AUTOSEL email,
> and I wasn't Cc-ed on this whole discussion and found it purely
> accidentally while browsing linux-mm list.

I am sorry that I did not CC you. There were so many people in CC.
I expected that all people mentioned in the related commit message
were included by default.

No worries! I'm not blaming anyone.

> So if you are willing to backport this set to -stable, then I wouldn't
> mind, probably would be more correct if we don't advertise this as a
> "panic() deadlock fix"

This should not be a problem. I guess that stable does not modify
the original commit messages unless there is a change.

Agreed.

I'll be happy to add anything you want to the commit message. Do you
have a blurb you want to use?

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Thanks,
Sasha