On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 09:31:51AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 02:17:59PM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit > > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. > > Indeed, this won't apply cleanly to 4.9 and earlier because of some > changes to the way SRCU works. And if you try to make the obvious > adjustments to make the patch apply, you will break SRCU. Oh good, I was wondering about that, I thought I had backported it properly, but then I figured I really don't know how rcu works in detail, so decided to just punt and reject it :) thanks, greg k-h