From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, stable <stable@kernel.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for stable] tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:36:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277213804.9181.30.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100622132839.GA18974@suse.de>
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 06:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:23:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Greg,
> >
> > Johannes has been hitting a bug in 2.6.33 that we believe is fixed with
> > the following patch. The bug is hit a few times a week, so it is hard to
> > verify. But we are only hitting it with .33 and not .34, and this patch
> > looks like it would be the one to fix it.
> >
> > Can you apply this patch to the 2.6.33 stable series.
>
> If you are ok with it, I'll apply it as it does look a little "big" for
> a stable kernel :)
Yeah, I usually would not ask for a patch this size to go into stable,
but it has been in mainline for a while, and seems to be the fix for a
bug we are hitting in .33.
>
> I'll queue it up later today.
Great! Thanks,
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-22 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-22 13:23 Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 13:28 ` Greg KH
2010-06-22 13:36 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-06-25 22:54 ` [stable] " Greg KH
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