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Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 05:56:00 -0700
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4.9 1/1] jiffies: use jiffies64_to_nsecs()
 to fix 100% steal usage for xen vcpu hotplug
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:35:40PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> Thanks to Joe Jin's reminding, this patch is applicable to mainline linux
> kernel, although there is no issue due to this kind of bug in mainline kernel.
> 
> Therefore, can I first submit this patch to mainline kernel and then backport it
> to stable linux with more detailed explanation how the issue is reproduced on xen?

Yes, please do that.

thanks,

greg k-h