linux-kernel - Re: Two sched patchs missing from 4.4-stable: inclusion possible?

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Message-ID: <20170523102712.GF28565@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 12:27:12 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ben Pineau <benjamin.pineau@...akl.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Two sched patchs missing from 4.4-stable: inclusion possible?

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:51:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:35:00AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Ben Pineau wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > The following two patches series, merged in mainline 4.7, was Cc'ed to stable@,
> > > but somehow didn't made its way to the 4.4.x stable tree:
> > >   754bd598be9bbc953bc709a9e8ed7f3188bfb9d7
> > >   094f469172e00d6ab0a3130b0e01c83b3cf3a98d
> 
> It would be so much easier if that were normal quotes like:
> 
> 754bd598be9b ("sched/fair: Do not announce throttled next buddy in dequeue_task_fair()")
> 094f469172e0 ("sched/fair: Initialize throttle_count for new task-groups lazily")
> 
> Then I'd not have had to look them up. And I'm most certainly not going
> to click through various interweb sites to provide answers.
> 
> > Sure, I'll be glad to take them if I can get an ack from the patch
> > authors, and reviewers (added to: and cc:)...
> > 
> > Ingo and Peter, any objections?
> 
> No, those patches should be fine I think.

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h