On Wed, Apr 19 2023 at 09:25, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2023-04-18 18:25:48 [+0200], Greg KH wrote:
>> > Could this be please backported to 5.15 and earlier? It is already part
>> > of the 6.X kernels. I asked about this by the end of January and I'm
>> > kindly asking again ;)
>>
>> I thought this was only an issues when using the out-of-tree RT patches
>> with these kernels, right? Or is it relevant for 5.15.y from kernel.org
>> without anything else?
>
> The out-of-tree RT patches make extensive use of the code. Since it is
> upstream code, I assumed it should go via the official stable trees.
> Without RT, the code is limited the rt_mutex_lock() used by I2C and the
> RCU booster-mutex.
Which is a reason to route it through the upstream stable trees, no?
Thanks,
tglx
