Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4.9 1/1] jiffies: use jiffies64_to_nsecs() to fix 100% steal usage for xen vcpu hotplug

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