[ANNOUNCE] 4.4.185-rt184

From: Daniel Wagner
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 07:37:21 EST


Hello RT Folks!

I'm pleased to announce the 4.4.185-rt184 stable release.

This release is just an update to the new stable 4.4.185 version and
no RT specific changes have been made.

There were a couple of merge conflicts. Nothing too scary but please
verify the intermediated releases (v4.4.180-rt182 and v4.4.181-rt183)
if I fixed the merge conflicts correctly.

Known issues:

- The stable v4.4.178 update includes bdf3c006b9a2 ("vmstat: make
vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle") which brakes
-rt. f01f17d3705b ("mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter") fixes
this problem and was send to stable-rt but rejected. The patch
brakes NVIDIAs Jetson hardware. More investigation or even better
hardware to test is needed.

You can get this release via the git tree at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git

branch: v4.4-rt
Head SHA1: 7ccd9a25e258c003b801fb59492752efab279b2e

Or to build 4.4.185-rt184 directly, the following patches should be applied:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.4.tar.xz

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/patch-4.4.185.xz

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.4/patch-4.4.185-rt184.patch.xz

Enjoy!
Daniel