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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups, #2
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:17:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070525091743.5fb569a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070525121540.GA24083@one.firstfloor.org>

On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:15:40 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> -Andi (who hopes this thread will end soon now and we can all go
> back to more important issues)

fyi, the thread has been damn useful for me.  If Ingo hadn't spotted that
preempt_count() imbalance then there's a decent chance that I'd have been
the first to hit it.

Time to bisect 1,000 patches: maybe an hour, if I choose the x86 tree as
the first pivot point, which is likely.

Or I wouldn't have hit it, in which case a tester hits it, and someone
(guess who) gets to enter into an intercontinental head-scratching session
trying to work out who broke it this time, consuming the tester's time too.
Plus we have a wrecked -mm and other people's code doesn't get as
well-tested as it might.

All for one silly little mistake.


So.  More care, please.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25  7:10 [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  7:22 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25  7:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  7:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  7:35       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25  7:39         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-25  7:58           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  8:02             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:16             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-25  8:21               ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  7:38       ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  7:31   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  7:39     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  7:43       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  7:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  7:54           ` [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock() Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:02             ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  8:04               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:20                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  8:34                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:41                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  8:44                       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:45                         ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  8:55                           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:55                           ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-25  9:03                             ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  9:19                               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  9:46                                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 10:12                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:20                                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 11:26                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:31                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:46                                         ` [patch] sched_clock: fix preempt count imbalance Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:50                                         ` [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups, #2 Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:55                                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 12:02                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 12:15                                               ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 16:17                                                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-25 16:26                                                   ` Daniel Walker
2007-05-25 16:33                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 16:49                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-25 18:08                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 19:14                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 19:45                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-25 10:27                                   ` [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock() Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:05                               ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-28  3:12                                 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-25  8:08             ` [patch] i386, numaq: enable TSCs again Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:19               ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-25  8:22                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25  8:25                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-25  8:31                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:38                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-25  8:41                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 18:16                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-05-25 18:23                         ` john stultz
2007-05-25  8:15             ` [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock() Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-25  8:16               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25  8:22           ` [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups Peter Zijlstra

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