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

From: SeongJae Park
Date: Tue Jan 05 2021 - 05:52:35 EST


On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:43:42 +0100 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

Sure, I will post it soon.

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

I understand. No problem at all.


Thanks,
SeongJae Park