linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.16 000/196] 4.16.4-stable review

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Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:21:28 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net,
        patches@...nelci.org, ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.16 000/196] 4.16.4-stable review

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 06:32:03PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 04/23/2018 02:07 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 04/23/2018 12:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 03:50:20PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.4 release.
> >>> There are 196 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> >>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> >>> let me know.
> >>>
> >>> Responses should be made by Tue Apr 24 13:50:16 UTC 2018.
> >>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >>>
> >>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >>> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.16.4-rc1.gz
> >>> or in the git tree and branch at:
> >>> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.16.y
> >>> and the diffstat can be found below.
> >>
> >> There is a -rc3 out now, to fix some issues reported with -rc1 and -rc2
> >> (I forgot to announce -rc2, sorry.):
> >>  	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.16.4-rc3.gz
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > I just tried rc1 - will try rc3. Has the lock problem seen already: ( I will
> > try rc3 and if I setill see the problem, will start bisect)
> > 
> 
> rc3 looks good. Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Oh good.  Thanks for testing two rounds of these for all of these
kernels and letting me know.

greg k-h