linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] Miscellaneous stability patches

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 08:49:51 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
To:	Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@...hat.com>
Cc:	spice-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Miscellaneous stability patches

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@...hat.com> wrote:
>> This set of patches mainly contains fix for some memory issues
>> using quite aggressively surfaces and other minor problems like
>> images going black after a while.
>>
>> Frediano Ziglio (11):
>>   Do not cause spice-server to clean our objects
>>   Do not leak memory if qxl_release_list_add fails
>>   Fix print statement not using uninitialized variable
>>   Avoid double free on error
>>   Handle all errors in qxl_surface_evict
>>   Fix return for qxl_release_alloc
>>   Handle correctly failures in qxl_alloc_relase_reserved
>>   Remove format string errors
>>   Move main reference counter to GEM object instead of TTM ones
>>   Simplify cleaning qxl processing command
>>   Propagate correctly errors from qxlhw_handle_to_bo
>>
>>  qxl/qxl_cmd.c     | 11 ++++++-----
>>  qxl/qxl_display.c |  2 +-
>>  qxl/qxl_drv.h     |  2 +-
>>  qxl/qxl_gem.c     | 10 ++++++++--
>>  qxl/qxl_ioctl.c   | 46 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
>>  qxl/qxl_object.c  | 11 ++++-------
>>  qxl/qxl_release.c | 13 +++++++++----
>>  7 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
> The strip level on these patches is rather odd.  Normally one would
> see a strip level of 1 at the top of the kernel dir.  E.g.
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_gem.c
>
> in the diffstat, etc.

(Sorry for the double reply.)

Also, are any of these commits something that should be queued for
stable kernel releases?  There are a handful that look like they
should be to me.

josh
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