From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-f69.google.com (mail-ed1-f69.google.com [209.85.208.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0AAA6B0003 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 16:23:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ed1-f69.google.com with SMTP id y15-v6so35530eds.14 for ; Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b1-v6si5109557edy.356.2018.10.01.13.23.58 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes" References: <20180927194601.207765-1-wonderfly@google.com> <20181001152324.72a20bea@gandalf.local.home> <20181001201309.GA9835@amd> From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <85b9ab27-ec57-647b-4c92-1afb9b595a2a@suse.cz> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:21:14 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181001201309.GA9835@amd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Pavel Machek , Steven Rostedt Cc: Daniel Wang , stable@vger.kernel.org, pmladek@suse.com, Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, byungchul.park@lge.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, mgorman@suse.de, mhocko@kernel.org, penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp, peterz@infradead.org, tj@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, pfeiner@google.com On 10/1/18 10:13 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Dunno. Is the patch perhaps a bit too complex? This is not exactly > trivial bugfix. > > pavel@duo:/data/l/clean-cg$ git show dbdda842fe96f | diffstat > printk.c | 108 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > > I see that it is pretty critical to Daniel, but maybe kernel with > console locking redone should no longer be called 4.4? In that case it probably should no longer be called 4.4 since at least Meltdown/Spectre fixes :)