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

[Daniel Wang]

Thanks for the clarification. So I guess I don't need to start another
thread for it? What are the next steps?

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:43 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 12:11:29PM -0800, Daniel Wang wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 9:43 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> >If we still get to amend the commit message, I'd like to add "Cc:
> >stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in the sign-off area. According to
> >https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-1
> >patches with that tag will be automatically applied to -stable trees.
> >It's unclear though if it'll get applied to ALL -stable trees. For my
> >request, I care at least about 4.19 and 4.14. So maybe we can add two
> >lines, "Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.14.x" and "Cc:
> ><stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.19.x".
>
> We can't change the original commit message (but that's fine, the
> purpose of that tag is to let us know that this commit should go in
> stable - and no we do :) ).
>
> I was under the impression that Sergey or Petr wanted to add more
> information about the purpose of this patch and the issue it solves.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Sasha



-- 
Best,
Daniel

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