On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 05:21:51 +0100, Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Sasha, > > On 8/13/22 5:50 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > genirq: GENERIC_IRQ_IPI depends on SMP > > > > to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > genirq-generic_irq_ipi-depends-on-smp.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > This commit should not be backported further than 8190cc572981 > ("irqchip/mips-gic: Only register IPI domain when SMP is enabled"), which it > depends on. It looks like that commit only went back to 5.10. I also wonder why these commits were backported *at all*. On their own, they don't fix anything, but allowed further improvements that are not backport candidates either. Honestly, if I wanted these backported to stable, I'd have put a 'Cc: stable' tag. These patches don't even have a 'Fixes:' tag, for the same reason. M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
