On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 03:25:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> The timer_stats feature was removed upstream by: >> >> commit dfb4357da6ddbdf57d583ba64361c9d792b0e0b1 >> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed Feb 8 11:26:59 2017 -0800 >> >> time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS >> >> I'm hesitant to propose removing a feature in stable, even if it is >> redundant. What I've done for Debian stable is to restrict it to the >> initial pid namespace (see attached). Would that be a reasonable >> alternative change for stable branches? > > I don't mind removing things in stable as that's what happened in > Linus's tree, and it was removed for a reason. We've done it before, > and I'm more hesitant to apply something that works a bit > "differently". > > Kees, any objection for me just taking the "full" patch in the stable > kernels? Arjan said it would break powertop, IIRC. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security