Messages in this thread | | | From | Luis Henriques <> | Subject | Re: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ? | Date | Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:57:03 +0100 |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> writes:
> * Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> wrote: > >> commit a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba >> Author: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com> >> Date: Tue Jan 8 12:56:52 2013 +0800 >> >> sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval() >> >> Without this patch, syscall sched_rr_get_interval() can return wrong >> value, and the bug was introduced in 2.6.24, so this looks like a >> candidate for stable kernel. >> >> The concern for backporting is that this might break some userspace >> programs? As the changelog says: >> >> [ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a >> slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ] > > It appears to have caused no trouble. > > So I'm fine with backporting it to older -stable kernels: > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > > Thanks, > > Ingo > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Thanks, I'm queuing it for the 3.5 kernel.
Cheers, -- Luis
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