Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:48:42 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes" |
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 03:28:41PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: >On (12/11/18 22:08), Daniel Wang wrote: >> >> I've been meaning to try it but kept getting distracted by other >> things. I'll try to find some time for it this week or next. Right now >> my intent is to get Steven's patch into 4.14 stable as it evidently >> fixed the particular issue I was seeing, and as Steven said it has >> been in upstream since 4.16 so it's not like backporting it will raise >> any red flags. I will start another thread on -stable for it. > >OK. > >> > I guess we still don't have a really clear understanding of what exactly >> is going in your system >> >> I would also like to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately I haven't >> got the expertise in this area nor the time to do it yet. Hence the >> intent to take a step back and backport Steven's patch to fix the >> issue that has resurfaced in our production recently. > >No problem. >I just meant that -stable people can be a bit "unconvinced".
The -stable people tried adding this patch back in April, but ended up getting complaints up the wazoo (https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/9/154) about how this is not -stable material.
So yes, testing/acks welcome :)
-- Thanks, Sasha
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