[PATCH 0/2][Eoan][SRU Disco] Fix regressions introduced by CMA allocation rework

[Seth Forshee]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 10:48:14AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 9:35 AM Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 06:43:12PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1839395
> > >
> > > Clean cherry-picks from upstream.
> >
> > The bug says "regression tested only," so how do we know that these
> > patches fix the issues reported on the bug?
> 
> hey Seth,
>   I don't directly know, as I don't have the hw in question. I'm just
> going on the basis of the upstream discussion:
>     https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/25/1096
> I also don't know if that hw even works w/ Ubuntu - but it seems like
> other platforms could be impacted as well.
> 
> Background is, anytime I backport subsystem changes like this to an
> Ubuntu kernel, I try to watch upstream for "Fixes:" commits that
> reference them, as those "Fixes" won't come in naturally from stable
> (the fixed commits aren't in a released kernel yet). My logic here is
> that these fixes look like the type of changes we would normally pull
> in from stable, and therefore would normally be candidates for Ubuntu.

Okay. I agree that it's a good idea to pull in commits that are fixes
for anything we've backported (and I really appreciate the fact that you
are keeping an eye out for them). I was just a little confused by that
statement in the SRU justification, so thanks for clarifying.

Seth