Re: [PATCHES][RFC] icache-related stuff

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 17:36:11 EST


On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:03 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Assorted icache-related fixes for the next window; some of that is -stable
> fodder.

I don't see anything alarming in the patches, but "some of it is
-stable fodder" looks wrong.

The only one that is marked for stable is 03/16, and that seems to fix
something that came in during this merge window.

It shouldn't be stable, because as far as I can tell, it should just
be fixed before the 4.18 release. No?

The rest looks like fine cleanups, but not stable (and certainly for
the next merge window)

Am I missing something?

Linus