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Date:   Mon, 9 May 2022 12:14:46 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 v3] locking/csd_lock: fix csdlock_debug cause arm64
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On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 11:14:12AM +0800, Chen Zhongjin wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Since the patch:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210420093559.23168-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com/
> has forced CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y from 5.12, it's not necessary to include
> this patch on master.
> 
> However this problem still exist on 5.10 stable, so either we can backport the
> above patch to 5.10, or independently apply mine.
> 
> I'm not sure if backporting one exist patch is better, but that patch only
> changed configs without any fix for old builds.
> 
> If you have any advice please tell me.

If you want to include a patch in the stable tree that is NOT in Linus's
tree, then you need to document it very very well as to why this is not
the case.

If backporting the above commit is better, I would much rather do that,
please ask the maintainers and developers of it if they will do that.

thanks,

greg k-h