linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix bug causing crashes

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2017 09:08:14 +0200
From:   Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-Kernal <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ulf.hansson@...aro.org, broonie@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix bug causing crashes


> Il giorno 04 lug 2017, alle ore 00:49, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> ha scritto:
> 
> On 07/03/2017 02:00 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>> I'm writing this short cover letter to hopefully help you decide what
>> to do with this patch, in this late phase of the development
>> cycle. This patch fixes a bug causing kernel crashes for at least
>> one year. Crashes apparently affect only a minority of users, but are
>> systematic for them (a crash every few tens of minutes for some).
> 
> By the time you wrote that email, 4.12 was already released for hours.

Oops ...

> So there's really no choice this time but to queue it up for 4.13.
> 

At least, no decision to make :)

Thanks,
Paolo

> -- 
> Jens Axboe
>