From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756914Ab0FYX3d (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:29:33 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:33353 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756434Ab0FYX30 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:29:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:54:10 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Greg KH , Lai Jiangshan , Johannes Berg , LKML , stable Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH for stable] tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer Message-ID: <20100625225410.GJ10683@kroah.com> References: <1277212983.9181.27.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20100622132839.GA18974@suse.de> <1277213804.9181.30.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1277213804.9181.30.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 09:36:44AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 06:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > 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 :) > > Yeah, I usually would not ask for a patch this size to go into stable, > but it has been in mainline for a while, and seems to be the fix for a > bug we are hitting in .33. Ok, all queued up now. greg k-h