Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4.9 1/1] jiffies: use jiffies64_to_nsecs() to fix 100% steal usage for xen vcpu hotplug

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 12 2019 - 08:56:04 EST


On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:35:40PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> Thanks to Joe Jin's reminding, this patch is applicable to mainline linux
> kernel, although there is no issue due to this kind of bug in mainline kernel.
>
> Therefore, can I first submit this patch to mainline kernel and then backport it
> to stable linux with more detailed explanation how the issue is reproduced on xen?

Yes, please do that.

thanks,

greg k-h