On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 07:04:38PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:28:10AM +0100, David Sterba wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 01:50:41PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > > [ Upstream commit 838fe1887765f4cc679febea60d87d2a06bd300e ] > > > > Please check the discussion under > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181025141705.213937-8-sashal@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > Jiri's reply: > > > > "This patch just removes pointless try_to_freeze(), that's guaranteed > > not to do anything and return immediately, as the btrfs kthread is not > > freezable. So I don't think it's needed in stable; the semantics is > > equivalent before and after." > > > > Sasha was fine with dropping the patch from stable candidates and this > > has not changed. Thanks. > > Indeed, I thought I dropped it but I see that I didn't. My bad, sorry. I've now dropped this. David, thanks for letting us know. greg k-h
