> > Just wanted stable maintainers to note that Jim, Paolo & myself decided > > eventually to revert this commit along with commit ae1f57670703 on > > upstream KVM. However, it is true that this commit makes commit > > ae1f57670703 more complete. Therefore we have 2 options here: > > 1) Apply this backport and sometime in the future also apply the reverts of > > both these commits with Paolo's commit which reverts them. > > Being "bug compatible" is good, I like that option :) It's not even a bug, just different behavior and in the end it turns out to be less surprising if we revert. So even better. :) > When is the revert patch going to hit Linus's tree? During the 4.16-rc1 > merge window? It's already there, commit ac9b305caa. But since this one was not marked for stable, ac9b305caa wasn't either. Paolo