On Tue, Mar 05 2024 at 1:49P -0500, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/5/24 11:47 AM, Song Liu wrote: > > Hi Jens, > > > > Please consider pulling the following fixes for md-6.8 on top of your > > block-6.8 branch. This set fixes two issues: > > > > 1. dmraid regression since 6.7 kernels. This issue was initially > > reported in [1]. This set of fix has been reviewed and tested by > > md and dm folks. > > > > 2. raid5 hang since 6.7 kernel, reported in [2]. We haven't got a > > better fix for this issue yet. This revert is a workaround. It has > > been applied to 6.7 stable kernels [3], and proved to be affective. > > We will look more into this issue for a better fix. > > > > We understand this is really last minute for the 6.8 release. But based > > on the data we have, these changes are safe and fix issues in the 6.8 > > kernel. > > There's just no way we're doing this much at this late in the process, > particularly when these are a) not introduced in the 6.8 cycle, and b) > we're not even a week away from the merge window. Doing them now for 6.8 > would just further risk stability there, no matter how well it's tested, > and it won't really reduce the time to stable anyway. Hence no, please > add these to the 6.9 queue. I agree. Song, please revisit each commit's header to make sure they are flagged for stable@ if appropriate (e.g. either add a Fixes: tag or explicitly Cc: stable@). Thanks, Mike
