Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Backport of patch series for stable 4.4 branch

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 05 2021 - 05:43:02 EST


On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:37:02AM +0100, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:29:11 +0100 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:03:57PM +0100, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Changes from v2
> > > (https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20201217130501.12702-1-sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx/)
> > > - Move 'nr_pending' increase from 5th patch to 4th patch
> > >
> > > Changes from v1
> > > (https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20201217081727.8253-1-sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx/)
> > > - Remove wrong 'Signed-off-by' lines for 'Author Redacted'
> >
> > All now queued up, but you also need a series of this for the 4.9.y tree
> > as well.
>
> Thank you for your efforts!
>
> However, I was able to cherry-pick this series, which is already merged in
> 4.4.y, to 4.9.y without conflicts.
>
> $ git checkout stable/linux-4.9.y -b xsa349_4.9
> $ git cherry-pick d8b0d52e408ca..3c71d2f637c8
> warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files.
> warning: you may want to set your merge.renamelimit variable to at least 6130 and retry the command.
> [xsa349_4.9 51b4cb3db28a] xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing
> Date: Mon Dec 14 10:02:45 2020 +0100
> 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files.
> warning: you may want to set your merge.renamelimit variable to at least 6130 and retry the command.
> [xsa349_4.9 3242225d9645] xen/xenbus: Add 'will_handle' callback support in xenbus_watch_path()
> Date: Mon Dec 14 10:04:18 2020 +0100
> 6 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files.
> warning: you may want to set your merge.renamelimit variable to at least 6130 and retry the command.
> [xsa349_4.9 10d6c1301412] xen/xenbus/xen_bus_type: Support will_handle watch callback
> Date: Mon Dec 14 10:05:47 2020 +0100
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files.
> warning: you may want to set your merge.renamelimit variable to at least 6130 and retry the command.
> [xsa349_4.9 3875703f1e6b] xen/xenbus: Count pending messages for each watch
> Date: Mon Dec 14 10:07:13 2020 +0100
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files.
> warning: you may want to set your merge.renamelimit variable to at least 6130 and retry the command.
> [xsa349_4.9 40e3b315cd18] xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages
> Date: Mon Dec 14 10:08:40 2020 +0100
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> Seems you tried to merge the series for upstream in 4.9.y:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/1609154834239118@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> This must because I didn't test this series with v4.9 and mention it. Sorry
> for making a confusion. Could you please check this again?

I can't do anything with a set of git cherry-picks like above, can you
please send the patches as a series so that I can apply them cleanly?

And I don't remember what happened with that failure, sorry, dealing
with hundreds of patches a week makes them all blur together...

thanks,

greg k-h