linux-kernel - Re: Patch "rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

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Message-ID: <2023102303-pending-purity-c504@gregkh>
Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:08:44 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        stable-commits@...r.kernel.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Patch "rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power" has been added
 to the 6.1-stable tree

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 08:57:52AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:23:33PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 8:18 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > 
> > >     rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power
> > > 
> > > to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
> > >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > Sasha, could you drop this patch from 6.1 stable? It is a new feature
> > and as such I expect folks who need it to backport. For instance, in
> > our stable derivatives, it has been backported.
> 
> You're right that it's a new feature, but it was taken as a dependency
> for a later fix.

I resolved this, and removed it, it wasn't really needed for that fix,
your bot's dependency chain got a bit too long for a 2 line bugfix :)

thanks,

greg k-h