On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:21:41AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:40:59AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > Upstream commit: > > > (commit) 2c33645d366d13b969d936b68b9f4875b1fdddea > > > (subject) perf/x86: Honor the architectural performance monitoring version > > > > > > A second commit fixes a trivial build issue introduced by the above commit: > > > (commit) 6d6f2833bfbf296101f9f085e10488aef2601ba5 > > > (subject) perf/x86: Fix undefined shift on 32-bit kernels > > > Usually it is recommended to CC the patch's author and maintainers of > > the code in question because they help with backports of fixes, and they > > are the ones who know best if there's a risk of regression or if a fix > > is incomplete for certain versions, so they definitely have their word > > to say. I'm CCing Imre and Peter who were involved in this fix. > > > > Also we're usually careful about not backporting to older kernels > > something which is not yet in more recent ones. Greg is traveling with > > limited connectivity this week, so we may have to wait for him to come > > back. The bug is not urgent anyway since it was fixed one year ago :-) > > No objections from my pov. they're fairly simple patches, therefore I > would not suspect any trouble backporting this, but if there is, do > holler. OK, thank you Peter! Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html