On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 05:21:51 +0100, Samuel Holland samuel@sholland.org wrote:
Hi Sasha,
On 8/13/22 5:50 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
genirq: GENERIC_IRQ_IPI depends on SMPto the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: genirq-generic_irq_ipi-depends-on-smp.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
This commit should not be backported further than 8190cc572981 ("irqchip/mips-gic: Only register IPI domain when SMP is enabled"), which it depends on. It looks like that commit only went back to 5.10.
I also wonder why these commits were backported *at all*. On their own, they don't fix anything, but allowed further improvements that are not backport candidates either.
Honestly, if I wanted these backported to stable, I'd have put a 'Cc: stable' tag. These patches don't even have a 'Fixes:' tag, for the same reason.
M.