From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755195AbZBJNEe (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:04:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754001AbZBJNEZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:04:25 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:44895 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754076AbZBJNEZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:04:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:04:11 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Lai Jiangshan Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent Message-ID: <20090210130411.GB8341@elte.hu> References: <20090209151744.459736868@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090209151744.459736868@goodmis.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > Ingo, > > Here's the changes by Lai. The bug scared me enough to investigate > it further, to see if we had other bug reports that this could > have fixed. But I found out that ring_buffer_read_page currently > does not have any users. The only user I have is for my splice work, > which has not been included yet. > > I guess Lai is adding one. These are true bug fixes to code that > is in the kernel, even if that code is currently "dead code". But I think > they should still be included in 29, since this will reflect on ftrace > when we have developers starting to use it (such as Lai). > > The following patches are in: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git > > branch: tip/tracing/urgent/devel hm, the branch does not exist anymore: fatal: Couldn't find remote ref tip/tracing/urgent/devel fatal: Couldn't find remote ref tracing/urgent/devel fatal: Couldn't find remote ref tracing/urgent In any case, please include this in the devel path not the urgent path. Urgent patches are for real regressions that occur with the upstream kernel and affect users. New uses of tracing code should be done on top of the tracing tree. Ingo