From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267625AbUJOK4u (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:56:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267648AbUJOK4u (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:56:50 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:53640 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267625AbUJOK4l (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:56:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:56:33 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mateusz.Blaszczyk@nask.pl, rml@tech9.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch, 2.6.9-rc4-mm1] fix oops in sched_setscheduler Message-ID: <20041015105633.GG5607@holomorphy.com> References: <20041015090336.GA14362@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041015090336.GA14362@elte.hu> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:03:36AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > the crash happens if 1) someone doesnt have profiling enabled 2) uses an > UP kernel and 3) does setscheduler. The patch below fixes 3 problems: > finishes and fixes the consolidation and fixes the profile=schedule > feature. Against 2.6.9-rc4-mm1. Tested. > also it seems that some serious mismerge happened of the > profile=schedule feature. Wli or akpm merge damage? > in the next mail i will send a patch against 2.6.9-rc4 too (which > luckily doesnt have the crash bug, but has the feature mismerge). I agree this is needed. I left the feature undisturbed from its state in mainline, though perhaps I should have looked further into it. -- wli