Re: [PATCH 3.9-stable 1/4] sched: Lower chances of cputime scaling overflow

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* Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think we need to get the author's of the patch, and the maintainers 
> > involved, to agree that this all needs to be in the 3.9-stable tree.
> 
> I planed to post backport of just commit 68aa8efcd1ab "sched: Avoid 
> prev->stime underflow", which fix 3.8 -> 3.9 regression. But Lingzhu 
> Xiang overtake me here with this 4 patches post. I considered this as 
> fine, since 3.9 code will match upstream, but I did not think originally 
> that those additional 3 patches are needed in -stable. They are fixes, 
> but do not fix current regression. They fix regression introduced in 
> 2007 or so.
> 
> So I'll just post backort of 68aa8efcd1ab.

I'd suggest also marking those additional 3 fixes for -stable. That should 
make it all apply and work just fine - or are there other dependencies 
that make that difficult?

In general the closer -stable code is to current upstream code the better 
- even if it means the application of 7 fixes here. It will make it (much) 
easier to fix bugs if they are reported against -stable.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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