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Message-ID: <20130802111455.GA29304@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:14:55 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> To: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, gaoyang.zyh@...bao.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ? * Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com> wrote: > commit a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba > Author: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@...bao.com> > Date: Tue Jan 8 12:56:52 2013 +0800 > > sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval() > > Without this patch, syscall sched_rr_get_interval() can return wrong > value, and the bug was introduced in 2.6.24, so this looks like a > candidate for stable kernel. > > The concern for backporting is that this might break some userspace > programs? As the changelog says: > > [ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a > slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ] It appears to have caused no trouble. So I'm fine with backporting it to older -stable kernels: Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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