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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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 06:28:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100622132839.GA18974@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277212983.9181.27.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

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 :)

I'll queue it up later today.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-22 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-22 13:23 [PATCH for stable] tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 13:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-06-22 13:36   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-25 22:54     ` [stable] " Greg KH

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