I understand now. Thanks! On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 10:11 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, Haitao Shan wrote: > > Thank you very much. > > > > I do have one more question. Is this fix going to be backported to > > v6.3, v6.4, etc? Or perhaps that will be a decision made by other > > maintainers? The reason for such a question is to decide whether we > > have to keep the workaround for certain kernel versions. > > It's tagged for stable, so it'll get automatically selected/backported for stable > kernels so long as the patch applies cleanly. That won't include 6.3 or 6.4 > because those are already end-of-life, i.e. not LTS kernels, and not the most > recent release. > > If the patch doesn't apply cleanly, e.g. I highly doubt it'll apply as-is for 5.15, > then someone has to do a manual backport, where "someone" can be anyone. Sometimes > that's a maintainer, but just as often it's someone that really cares about fixing > something in a particular kernel. -- Haitao @Google
