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Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:36:55 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
        Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>,
        Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>,
        Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>,
        Dan Robertson <danlrobertson89@gmail.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] scripts/gdb: replace flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz)
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 01:47:58PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:30 AM Kieran Bingham
> <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
> >
> > Since commit 1751e8a6cb93 ("Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz)"),
> > scripts/gdb should be updated to replace MS_xyz with SB_xyz.
> >
> > This change didn't directly affect the running operation of scripts/gdb until
> > commit e262e32d6bde "vfs: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless
> 
> Note to stable, e262e32d6bde landed in v5.0-rc1 (which was just
> released), so we'll want this picked back to 5.0 stable once this
> patch hits mainline (akpm just picked it up).
> 
> Just following up to say that without this, debugging a kernel a
> kernel via GDB+QEMU is broken in the 5.0 release.

I do not understand, sorry.  Specifically, what git commits do you want
applied to which stable releases for what reason?

thanks,

greg k-h