From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758162Ab0FVN3W (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:29:22 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39410 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751052Ab0FVN3V (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:29:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:28:39 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , stable , Johannes Berg , Lai Jiangshan Subject: Re: [PATCH for stable] tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer Message-ID: <20100622132839.GA18974@suse.de> References: <1277212983.9181.27.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1277212983.9181.27.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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