On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 02:51:52PM -0500, Anthony Brennan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:26:23AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 08:32:29PM -0500, Anthony Brennan wrote: > > > To be applied to linux-5.15.y. > > > > > > commit 59d0d52c30d4991ac4b329f049cc37118e00f5b0 upstream > > > > That is not this commit at all :( > > > > Thank you for your time. > > >From what I can tell, the upstream commit merged by Linus includes two > unrelated sets of changes: handling xas_retry, and fixes to "dodgy > maths". I discarded the fixes to dodgy maths for two reasons, first the > commit log says they solve a theoretical potential problem and the > guidelines for submissions to the stable kernel say to avoid such > patches, and second, I lack the expertise to be confident those fixes > are correct when working with pages and not folios. > > Unsure what I should have done here. Submit a real patch for the normal tree and then we can backport the same commit id to a stable tree. You can't backport a merge commit as obviously that doesn't make sense in an older tree. thanks, greg k-h
