On Mon 2018-04-09 00:19:53, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit dbdda842fe96f8932bae554f0adf463c27c42bc7 ] > > This patch implements what I discussed in Kernel Summit. I added > lockdep annotation (hopefully correctly), and it hasn't had any splats > (since I fixed some bugs in the first iterations). It did catch > problems when I had the owner covering too much. But now that the owner > is only set when actively calling the consoles, lockdep has stayed > quiet. Same here. I do not thing that this is a material for stable backport. More details can be found in my reply to the patch for 4.15, see https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409081535.dq7p5bfnpvd3xk3t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Best Regards, Petr PS: I wonder how much time you give people to react before releasing this. The number of autosel mails is increasing and I am involved only in very small amount of them. I wonder if some other people gets overwhelmed by this.