On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 07:54:34AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > 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. So we broke it in 4.11? That doesn't seem to sound reasonable, how are you getting away with that? :) thanks, greg k-h