On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 09:39:37AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 11:34:44AM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-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>.
> >
> > Possible dependencies:
> >
> > 1c0908d8e441 ("rtmutex: Add acquire semantics for rtmutex lock acquisition slow path")
> > ee042be16cb4 ("locking: Apply contention tracepoints in the slow path")
> > d257cc8cb8d5 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff bit handling more consistent")
> > 7cdacc5f52d6 ("locking/rwsem: Disable preemption for spinning region")
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I don't plan to backport this to -stable. It's PREEMPT_RT-specific so
> anyone how needs it are managing their own OOT patches. The prerequisites
> are not -stable material so ideally anyone backporting would be functionally
> verifying their target workloads still works ok and meets deadlines. Normal
> users of stable kernels are not impacted by the bug this patch fixes.
Thanks for the info!
