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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.9 00/42] 4.9.188-stable review
    On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:11:01PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
    > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.188 release.
    >
    > Peter Zijlstra's "x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()"
    > upstream commit 69d927bba39517d0980462efc051875b7f4db185 seems to
    > be missing/lost from 4.9 and older stable kernels.
    >
    > That patch has 10 hunks, first one of those does not apply cleanly to
    > 4.9 kernel because it attempts to modify Documentation/atomic_t.txt
    > file which does not exist in older kernels. Other 9 hunks apply with
    > small offsets and fuzz, but modifications find their correct places anyway.
    > Those other 9 hunks are the important ones, first hunk can be ignored.
    >
    > Greg,
    > Please take Peter Zijlstra's original patch and "force" apply it like this
    > to 4.9 kernels:
    >
    > patch -p1 -f <ORIGINAL.patch
    >
    > and for 4.4 kernels like this:
    >
    > cat ORIGINAL.patch | sed -e 's/__smp_mb__/smp_mb__/' | patch -p1 -f -l

    Can you send properly backported and tested patches?

    thanks,

    greg k-h

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