On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:54:06AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:13:37 -0400 > Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die > > > > to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > Hi Sasha, > > Could you give some more info on why this one got picked up? > I wouldn't have thought it was normally stable material, > so I'm guessing it was needed as part of the dependencies of a fix? > Looking at your tree, possibly related to > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/diff/queue-5.15/topology-sysfs-export-die-attributes-only-if-an-arch.patch?id=5d1889208954bc949e3cc964d47d7c29c151d4ef > topology-sysfs-export-die-attributes-only-if-an-arch.patch > as that's touching code in same place (the related patch only affects > the code this patch added). > > It's been tested backported to 5.10 by our openEuler team but as a feature > rather than a fix. So shouldn't cause problems but famous last words and > all that... It is exposing new ABI for starters, though I see you didn't > pick up the in kernel users (we definitely don't want them in stable!) > > So probably fine, but 'unusual' enough I thought I'd ask. I agree, this shouldn't be in 5.15.y now, I was drug in as a pre-requsite of another patch that I reported failing to apply. I'll drop this, and the others now and wait for a simpler backported change for the binary sysfs file sizes change if that's really wanted by others. thanks, greg k-h
