On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 03:27:41PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Ignoring the STAGING issue I've tried to use the same guideline as for > -stable for -rc .. > > So this is a real problem, we definitely hit the locking bugs if we > retry/etc under stress, so I would be OK to send it to Linus for > early-rc. > > However, it doesn't look like the 1st patch is fixing a current bug > though, the only callers uses blocking = true, so just the middle > three are -rc? nonblocking isn't used anywher, but it is a major, major API bug. Your call, but if it was my tree I'd probably send it to Linus.