On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 02:51:52PM -0500, Anthony Brennan wrote:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:26:23AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 08:32:29PM -0500, Anthony Brennan wrote:
To be applied to linux-5.15.y.
commit 59d0d52c30d4991ac4b329f049cc37118e00f5b0 upstream
That is not this commit at all :(
Thank you for your time.
From what I can tell, the upstream commit merged by Linus includes two
unrelated sets of changes: handling xas_retry, and fixes to "dodgy maths". I discarded the fixes to dodgy maths for two reasons, first the commit log says they solve a theoretical potential problem and the guidelines for submissions to the stable kernel say to avoid such patches, and second, I lack the expertise to be confident those fixes are correct when working with pages and not folios.
Unsure what I should have done here.
Submit a real patch for the normal tree and then we can backport the same commit id to a stable tree. You can't backport a merge commit as obviously that doesn't make sense in an older tree.
thanks,
greg k-h