From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:13:07 +0200 From: Robert Richter To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile Message-ID: <20081013151307.GA23557@erda.amd.com> References: <1217620879.15667.145.camel@carll-linux-desktop> <18610.20951.764057.574721@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <200808250955.57638.arnd@arndb.de> <200810131653.29631.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In-Reply-To: <200810131653.29631.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-kernel , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras , oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net, cel , cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 13.10.08 16:53:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Monday 25 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > >=20 > > > > Since rc4 is out now, I understand if you feel more comfortable w= ith > > > > 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 o= n > > > 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. > >=20 > > That's right, please queue it for -next then. >=20 > I just realized that this patch never made it into powerpc-next after > all, neither benh nor paulus version. Whoever is handling it today, > could you please pull >=20 > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/cell-2.6.git merge >=20 > to get this commit below. I have rebased it on top of the current > benh/powerpc/next branch. All powerpc oprofile patches are in this branch: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git powerpc-f= or-paul Pending patches are: Carl Love (1): powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile Roel Kluin (1): powerpc/cell/oprofile: vma_map: fix test on overlay_tbl_offset Please pull from there. -Robert --=20 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Operating System Research Center email: robert.richter@amd.com