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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hotplug: assign hot added LMB to the right node
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
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From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
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Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:12:38 +0100
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Le 03/12/2020 à 19:25, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:15:14AM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> This patch applies to 5.9 and earlier kernels only.
>>
>> Since 5.10, this has been fortunately fixed by the commit
>> e5e179aa3a39 ("pseries/drmem: don't cache node id in drmem_lmb struct").
> 
> Why can't we just backport that patch instead?  It's almost always
> better to do that than to have a one-off patch, as almost always those
> have bugs in them.

That's a good option too.
I was thinking that this 5.10 patch was not matching the stable release's 
guidelines since it was targeting performance issue, but since it is also fixing 
this issue, I'm certainly wrong.

So, forget that patch.

Thanks,
Laurent.