Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752239AbdGCIBF (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 04:01:05 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com ([74.125.82.50]:38493 "EHLO mail-wm0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753037AbdGCIA7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 04:00:59 -0400 From: Paolo Valente To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, broonie@kernel.org, Paolo Valente Subject: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix bug causing crashes Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:00:09 +0200 Message-Id: <20170703080010.1709-1-paolo.valente@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 21 Hi Jens, I'm writing this short cover letter to hopefully help you decide what to do with this patch, in this late phase of the development cycle. This patch fixes a bug causing kernel crashes for at least one year. Crashes apparently affect only a minority of users, but are systematic for them (a crash every few tens of minutes for some). Thanks, Paolo Paolo Valente (1): block, bfq: don't change ioprio class for a bfq_queue on a service tree block/bfq-iosched.c | 14 ++++++++++---- block/bfq-iosched.h | 3 ++- block/bfq-wf2q.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.10.0