From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org,
davem@davemloft.net, fweisbec@gmail.com,
perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net, eranian@gmail.com,
robert.richter@amd.com, acme@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH percpu#for-next] percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:45:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100910164525.GA11188@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100910093115.2f0859af.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
* Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:55:18 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:52 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Percpu allocator should clear memory before returning it but the km
> > > allocator forgot to do it. Fix it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > > Spotted-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> >
> > (fwiw, -tip uses Reported-by)
>
> fyi, Documentation/SubmittingPatches does also.
Yeah, and, FYI, there's observed strong correlation between the
maintenance policies of -tip and Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
[i'd even venture so far to claim causation]
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-09 13:09 [RFC PATCH 1/2] perf_events: add support for per-cpu per-cgroup monitoring (v3) Stephane Eranian
2010-09-09 13:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-09 21:41 ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-10 8:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-10 8:41 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-10 8:52 ` [PATCH percpu#for-next] percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator Tejun Heo
2010-09-10 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-10 16:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-09-10 16:45 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-09-10 23:28 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-10 8:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] perf_events: add support for per-cpu per-cgroup monitoring (v3) Stephane Eranian
2010-09-10 9:03 ` [PATCH] percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled Tejun Heo
2010-09-10 9:07 ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-10 9:09 ` Eric Dumazet
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