On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:21:30 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 09:58:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 07:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > 5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > I assume the min/max patches had some reason to be backported that is > > probably mentioned somewhere in the forest of patches, but I missed > > it. > > It wasn't specifically called out here, but yes, they were needed for > the DAEMON fix. And they will be needed in the future probably as well > because we have run into this problem many times when backporting > patches (i.e. the backport throws tons of warnings because the min/max > changes are not there.) For others' information, the original backporting request including the detail is available at https://lore.kernel.org/20240716183333.138498-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx Also, s/DAEMON/DAMON/ ;) > > Same for 6.1.y, which is why they are there too. > > > It's ok, but people are literally talking about this set of patches > > causing a big slowdown in building the kernel, with some files going > > from less than a second to build to being 15+ seconds because of the > > preprocessor expansion they can cause. > > I saw that hopefully if that gets resolved in your tree we can backport > the needed changes here tool. I agree. Thanks, SJ > > thanks, > > greg k-h
