From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net,
cel <cel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:55:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808250955.57638.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18610.20951.764057.574721@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Monday 25 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>=20
> > Since rc4 is out now, I understand if you feel more comfortable with
> > putting the patch into -next instead of -merge.
>=20
> Linus has been getting stricter about only putting in fixes for
> regressions and serious bugs (see his recent email to Dave Airlie on
> LKML for instance). =A0I assume that the corruption is just in the data
> that is supplied to userspace and doesn't extend to any kernel data
> structures.
That's right, please queue it for -next then.
> > Note that the second patch is trivial and fixes an oopsable condition
> > of the kernel, so at least that should still go into 2.6.27.
>=20
> OK, I'll cherry-pick that one for my next batch for Linus.
Thanks,
Arnd <><
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net,
cel <cel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:55:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808250955.57638.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18610.20951.764057.574721@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Monday 25 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> > Since rc4 is out now, I understand if you feel more comfortable with
> > putting the patch into -next instead of -merge.
>
> Linus has been getting stricter about only putting in fixes for
> regressions and serious bugs (see his recent email to Dave Airlie on
> LKML for instance). I assume that the corruption is just in the data
> that is supplied to userspace and doesn't extend to any kernel data
> structures.
That's right, please queue it for -next then.
> > Note that the second patch is trivial and fixes an oopsable condition
> > of the kernel, so at least that should still go into 2.6.27.
>
> OK, I'll cherry-pick that one for my next batch for Linus.
Thanks,
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-25 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 20:01 [PATCH 2/2] Cell OProfile: SPU mutex lock fix, version 4 Carl Love
2008-08-08 13:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 13:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] Repost " Carl Love
2008-08-09 13:13 ` please pull cell merge branch Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-09 13:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-10 23:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-10 23:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-11 7:18 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-11 7:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-11 7:25 ` powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-11 7:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 11:57 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 11:57 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 12:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 12:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 12:39 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 12:39 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 14:58 ` Carl Love
2008-08-20 12:39 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 12:39 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 4:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-21 4:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-21 8:14 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 8:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 10:20 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-08-21 10:20 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-08-21 14:58 ` Carl Love
2008-08-25 6:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-25 6:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-25 7:55 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-08-25 7:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-13 14:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-13 14:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-13 15:13 ` Robert Richter
2008-10-13 15:13 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-11 7:25 ` powerpc/cell/oprofile: avoid double free of profile buffer Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-11 7:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-19 11:53 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-19 11:53 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-11 15:34 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] please pull cell merge branch Carl Love
2008-08-11 15:34 ` Carl Love
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