Re: [stable 4.19] [PANIC]: tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:12:45 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Specifically, commits:
> > 
> > a0d14b8909de55139b8702fe0c7e80b69763dcfb ("x86/mm, tracing: Fix CR2 corruption")
> > 6879298bd0673840cadd1fb36d7225485504ceb4 ("x86/entry/64: Prevent clobbering of saved CR2 value")
> > b8f70953c1251d8b16276995816a95639f598e70 ("x86/entry/32: Pass cr2 to do_async_page_fault()")
> > 
> > (which are in 5.4 but not 4.19)
> > 
> > But again, is this too intrusive. There was a workaround that was
> > original proposed, but Peter didn't want any more band-aids, and did
> > the restructuring, but as you can see from the two other patches, it
> > makes it a bit more high risk.  
> 
> If those are known to work, why can't I take them as-is?

If they apply without tweaks, I say "Go for it" ;-)

My worry is that they may have other unknown dependencies. And I only
looked at what was applied between 4.19 and 5.4 mainline. I haven't
looked at what else may have been backported to fix the above three
commits.

-- Steve