Re: Q. drm/i915 shrinker, synchronize_rcu_expedited() from handlers

From: Jani Nikula
Date: Thu Jun 15 2017 - 03:08:04 EST


On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanx, I got linux-v4.12-rc4 and it contains
> 4681ee2 2017-05-18 drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking
>
> How about v4.11.x series?
> I got v4.11.5, but it doesn't contain the fix.
> Do you have a plan?

The upstream commit has the proper Cc: stable and Fixes: tags in place,
it just takes a while for the patches to trickle to stable kernels.

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center