Re: [PATCH] MIPS: loongson2: cpufreq: fix broken cpufreq

2013-07-12 Thread Viresh Kumar
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Aaro Koskinen aaro.koski...@iki.fi wrote: Commit 42913c799 (MIPS: Loongson2: Use clk API instead of direct dereferences) broke the cpufreq functionality on Loongson2 boards: clk_set_rate() is called before the CPU frequency table is initialized, and therefore

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:34 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:57:46PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:50:23PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: In any case, I've been very conservative in _not_ pushing bug fixes to Linus after -rc3 (unless

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-netfront: pull on receive skb may need to happen earlier

2013-07-12 Thread Wei Liu
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: On 08.07.13 at 11:59, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 05.07.13 at 16:53, Wei Liu wei.l...@citrix.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:32:41AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c +++

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-netfront: pull on receive skb may need to happen earlier

2013-07-12 Thread Jan Beulich
On 12.07.13 at 10:32, Wei Liu wei.l...@citrix.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: On 08.07.13 at 11:59, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 05.07.13 at 16:53, Wei Liu wei.l...@citrix.com wrote: skb-truesize += PAGE_SIZE * skb_shinfo(skb)-nr_frags;

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: Maybe the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of holding back changes and trying to avoid the risk of introducing regressions; perhaps this would be a good topic to discuss at the Kernel Summit. Bah, I sent out a similar email about

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Jiri Kosina jkos...@suse.cz wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote: Maybe the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of holding back changes and trying to avoid the risk of introducing regressions; perhaps this would be a good topic to

Re: WTF: patch [PATCH] ACPI / dock: Actually define acpi_dock_init() as void was seriously submitted to be applied to the 3.10-stable tree?

2013-07-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On 7/12/2013 3:06 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:00:14AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On 7/12/2013 2:53 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On 7/12/2013 2:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:32:07AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On 7/12/2013 2:29 AM, Greg KH wrote:

Re: WTF: patch [PATCH] ACPI / dock: Actually define acpi_dock_init() as void was seriously submitted to be applied to the 3.10-stable tree?

2013-07-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On 7/12/2013 3:05 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:53:37AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On 7/12/2013 2:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:32:07AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On 7/12/2013 2:29 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:22:23AM +0200,

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ext4: Fix overflows in ext4 code

2013-07-12 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:14:29AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: I don't think these did get cc'd to stable. Was there a reason for that, or was it an oversight? It was an oversight; my fault, sorry. I'll send a request to

[PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code

2013-07-12 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
As we hot-add 128 MB chunks of memory, we wait to ensure that the memory is onlined before attempting to hot-add the next chunk. If the udev rule for memory hot-add is not executed within the allowed time, we would rollback the state and abort further hot-add. Since the hot-add has succeeded and

[PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Do not post pressure status if interrupted

2013-07-12 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
When we are posting pressure status, we may get interrupted and handle the un-balloon operation. In this case just don't post the status as we know the pressure status is stale. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan k...@microsoft.com Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c |

Re: [ 0/8] 3.0.86-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:20:29PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.86 release. There are 8 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:44:55PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 06:29:35PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:01:17PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: rant I'm sitting on top of over 170 more patches that have been marked for the

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[PATCH] drm/radeon: never unpin UVD bo v2

2013-07-12 Thread alexdeucher
From: Christian König christian.koe...@amd.com Changing the UVD BOs offset on suspend/resume doesn't work because the VCPU internally keeps pointers to it. Just keep it always pinned and save the content manually. Fixes: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66425 v2: fix compiler

[PATCH] drm/radeon: Disable dma rings for bo moves on r6xx

2013-07-12 Thread alexdeucher
From: Alex Deucher alexander.deuc...@amd.com They still seem to cause instability on some r6xx parts. As a follow up, we can switch to using CP DMA for bo moves on r6xx as a lighter weight alternative to using the 3D engine. Fixes hangs on some cards with heavy buffer migration. Tested-by: J.N.

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ext4: Fix overflows in ext4 code

2013-07-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:15:06AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:14:29AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: I don't think these did get cc'd to stable. Was there a reason for that, or was it an oversight?

Re: [ 00/11] 3.4.53-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:11:00PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.53 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Re: [ 00/11] 3.4.53-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:58:46AM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:11:00PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.53 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Guenter Roeck li...@roeck-us.net wrote: I get the impression as soon as we hit -rc1, some maintainers immediately go into OH SHIT, I CAN'T SEND PATCHES OR LINUS WILL SHOUT AT ME mode. I agree. But it seems that I need to now start shouting at them :(

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 08:22 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Listen to yourself. In fact, there is a damn good solution: don't mark crap for stable, and don't send crap to me after -rc4. I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg does ;-) Actually, as I consider

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg does ;-) Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should* scare you. He might squish you without ever even noticing.

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg does ;-) Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should* scare

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: * Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg does ;-) Have

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: * Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: I tend to hold

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 08:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg does ;-) Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should* scare

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:35:26PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ingo Molnar mi...@kernel.org wrote: * Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: I tend to hold things

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/11/2013 05:50 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: At least at one point in the past... And at at least one *other* point in the past, Linus stated that holding back anything with a Cc: stable waiting for the merge window is wrong. This would imply that the post-rc5-or-so policy and the stable

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Shuah Khan
On 07/11/2013 04:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.1 release. There are 19 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for requesting post-inclusion elevation of patches to stable status? It isn't all that unusual that the need for -stable is highlighted after a patch has been included in a maintainer's tree, and rebasing to add stable metadata

Re: [ 00/11] 3.4.53-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Shuah Khan
On 07/11/2013 05:19 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.53 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should

Re: [ 00/15] 3.9.10-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Shuah Khan
On 07/11/2013 07:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.9.10 release. There are 15 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should

Re: [ 0/8] 3.0.86-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Shuah Khan
On 07/11/2013 05:44 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.86 release. There are 8 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:20:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for requesting post-inclusion elevation of patches to stable status? It isn't all that unusual that the need for -stable is highlighted after a patch has been

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 05:20:29PM +, Shuah Khan wrote: On 07/11/2013 04:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.1 release. There are 19 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues

Re: [ 0/8] 3.0.86-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 06:54:43AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:20:29PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.86 release. There are 8 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 08:22:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Guenter Roeck li...@roeck-us.net wrote: I get the impression as soon as we hit -rc1, some maintainers immediately go into OH SHIT, I CAN'T SEND PATCHES OR LINUS WILL SHOUT AT ME mode. I

Re: [ 00/11] 3.4.53-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:11:00PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.53 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Guenter Roeck li...@roeck-us.net wrote: Stable rules say: It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, This could be a problem... type thing). All the above fit that rule. You cut out the important part: - It must fix a problem that causes a build

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 10:28 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: Yes, this requires you to remember to do this after it hits Linus's tree, so you could do like David does for networking, and keep a seperate tree to send to me specifically for stable patches. I think he uses patchwork, but I know

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:28:36AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:20:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for requesting post-inclusion elevation of patches to stable status? It isn't all that

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: Perhaps just make a separate stable branch, where you cherry-pick the specific patch using the -x option. Adds a (cherry picked from commit ...). Then you could have some filter that monitors Linus commits and when a

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:50:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Guenter Roeck li...@roeck-us.net wrote: Stable rules say: It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, This could be a problem... type thing). All the above fit that rule. You cut out

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 01:57:18PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:28:36AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:20:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for requesting

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 10:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: Perhaps just make a separate stable branch, where you cherry-pick the specific patch using the -x option. Adds a (cherry picked from commit ...). Then you

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/12/2013 10:57 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:28:36AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:20:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for requesting post-inclusion elevation of patches

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/12/2013 11:16 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: This relates to the a posteori metadata problem with git. In theory I think git notes should handle those, but I have to admit that git notes somewhat creep me out because there doesn't seem to be any version control on them, and as far as I can

Re: [ 00/11] 3.4.53-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:34:56AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:11:00PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.53 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
The unwritten criteria that I've seen used (and sometimes even discussed on mailing lists) is that if it's something that distro kernel maintainers would want, then it's fit for stable. Now, there's a grey area here. The criteria before distro's golden master has been released is quite different

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:28 AM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: OK, just read up some more on git notes, and *both* the assumptions I had made about git notes were fundamentally wrong. Not sure how well they would scale, though, but stuffing metadata like additional Acked-by:,

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 15:35 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: So the problem is that maintainers are lazy. They don't want to go back for bug fixes that have proven themselves, and even if they aren't critical bug fixes, they are things which a distro maintainer or a stable kernel user might want

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:50:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: So I'm not going to argue that your particular patches were the problem here. I'm more arguing against your arguments than against the patches themselves. I'm not looking for some hard black-and-white rules that say this is

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: They can be useful for local notes (they can be very powerful for certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me. Perhaps notes can be used as that reminder to send to stable. Tag a commit with a note, and have some

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:49:11PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 15:35 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: So the problem is that maintainers are lazy. They don't want to go back for bug fixes that have proven themselves, and even if they aren't critical bug fixes, they are

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Shuah Khan
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: They can be useful for local notes (they can be very powerful for certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me. Perhaps notes can be used as

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:49:11PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 15:35 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: So the problem is that maintainers are lazy. They don't want to go back for bug fixes that have proven themselves, and even if they aren't critical bug fixes, they

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code

2013-07-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 06:56:14AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: As we hot-add 128 MB chunks of memory, we wait to ensure that the memory is onlined before attempting to hot-add the next chunk. If the udev rule for memory hot-add is not executed within the allowed time, we would rollback the

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 16:19 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: Your example above: If that fix was for tracing reports wrong results, no big deal, everyone can live with it for a month. If it was fixing a bug in tracing can allow an unprivileged user to crash the kernel, a month is unacceptable, and

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 16:28 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 16:19 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: I would suspect that machines that allow unprivileged users would be running distro kernels, and not the latest release from Linus, and thus even a bug that can allow an unprivileged

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:53:17PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: They can be useful for local notes (they can be very powerful for certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me. Perhaps notes can be used as that

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 13:33 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: That's what mailboxes are for, use a script of 'git send-email' to send it to yourself and save it somewhere. Use patchwork. Use a text file to remind yourself. Use quilt, like Andrew does, he has a great track record of marking

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:50:51PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: So probably we should incite patch contributors to add a specific tag such as Fixes: 3.5 and later, so that non-important patches do not need the Cc:stable anymore, but users who experience an issue can easily spot them and ask for

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 04:47:44PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:50:51PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: So probably we should incite patch contributors to add a specific tag such as Fixes: 3.5 and later, so that non-important patches do not need the Cc:stable anymore,

RE: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code

2013-07-12 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 4:17 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com; jasow...@redhat.com; Stable

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code

2013-07-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:07:19PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: [...] Well now it might look like a bug that you don't test the result of wait_for_completion_timeout(). Maybe update the comment to explain why it's OK to continue anyway? I put in the comment in the patch explaining why it

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Justin M. Forbes
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 04:28:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: I would suspect that machines that allow unprivileged users would be running distro kernels, and not the latest release from Linus, and thus even a bug that can allow an unprivileged user to crash the kernel may still be able to

Re: [ 00/15] 3.9.10-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:19:30PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.9.10 release. There are 15 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/12/2013 12:53 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: They can be useful for local notes (they can be very powerful for certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me. Perhaps notes can be used as that reminder to send to

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/12/2013 01:33 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: Is it _really_ all that hard to remember what to mark for stable inclusion? If you figure it out after you have committed the patch, then just put a copy of it somewhere to remind yourself. That seems to be what both David and I do with no

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 08:34:30 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:57:46PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:50:23PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: In any case, I've been very conservative in _not_ pushing bug fixes to Linus after -rc3

[PATCH 3/3] pch_gbe: Add MinnowBoard support

2013-07-12 Thread Darren Hart
The MinnowBoard uses an AR803x PHY with the PCH GBE which requires special handling. Use the MinnowBoard PCI Subsystem ID to detect this and add a pci_device_id.driver_data structure and functions to handle platform setup. The AR803x does not implement the RGMII 2ns TX clock delay in the trace

Re: [PATCH 3/3] pch_gbe: Add MinnowBoard support

2013-07-12 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 17:58 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: The MinnowBoard uses an AR803x PHY with the PCH GBE which requires special handling. Use the MinnowBoard PCI Subsystem ID to detect this and add a pci_device_id.driver_data structure and functions to handle platform setup. trivial comments

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Jochen Striepe
Hello, On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 04:28:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: I would suspect that machines that allow unprivileged users would be running distro kernels, and not the latest release from Linus, and thus even a bug that can allow an unprivileged user to crash the kernel may

Re: [PATCH 3/3] pch_gbe: Add MinnowBoard support

2013-07-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 05:58:07PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: The MinnowBoard uses an AR803x PHY with the PCH GBE which requires special handling. Use the MinnowBoard PCI Subsystem ID to detect this and add a pci_device_id.driver_data structure and functions to handle platform setup. The

Re: [ 00/15] 3.9.10-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:05:05PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:19:30PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.9.10 release. There are 15 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 02:24:07AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, July 11, 2013 08:34:30 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:57:46PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:50:23PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: In any case, I've been

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:01:17 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: rant I'm sitting on top of over 170 more patches that have been marked for the stable releases right now that are not included in this set of releases. The fact that there are this many patches for stable stuff that are

Re: [ 00/15] 3.9.10-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:19:30 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.9.10 release. There are 15 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

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Re: [ 00/11] 3.4.53-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:11:00 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.53 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Re: [ 0/8] 3.0.86-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:20:29 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.86 release. There are 8 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Re: [ 0/8] 3.0.86-stable review

2013-07-12 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 01:17:36PM +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:20:29 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.86 release. There are 8 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If

Re: [PATCH 3/3] pch_gbe: Add MinnowBoard support

2013-07-12 Thread Darren Hart
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 18:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 05:58:07PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: The MinnowBoard uses an AR803x PHY with the PCH GBE which requires special handling. Use the MinnowBoard PCI Subsystem ID to detect this and add a pci_device_id.driver_data

Re: [PATCH 3/3] pch_gbe: Add MinnowBoard support

2013-07-12 Thread Darren Hart
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 18:10 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 17:58 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: The MinnowBoard uses an AR803x PHY with the PCH GBE which requires special handling. Use the MinnowBoard PCI Subsystem ID to detect this and add a pci_device_id.driver_data structure