On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:37:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
Hello stable team,
These patches have been shipping in mainline since v5.7-rc1 with no reported issues. They address long standing problems in libnvdimm's handling of namespace provisioning relative to alignment constraints including crashes trying to even load the driver on some PowerPC configurations.
I did fold one build fix [1] into "libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' attribute" so as to not convey the bisection breakage to -stable.
Please consider them for v5.4-stable. They do pass the latest version of the ndctl unit tests.
What about 5.6.y? Any user upgrading from 5.4-stable to 5.6-stable would hit a regression, right?
So can we get a series backported to 5.6.y as well? I need that before I can take this series.
thanks,
greg k-h