Hi Jens and Mike, > On Mar 5, 2024, at 11:16 AM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 for the suggestions. I will resend them via md-6.9 branch. Song
