Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf hists: Fix determination of a callchain node's childlessness

Andres Freund
2016-05-02T22:25:32Z

Hi,

On 2016-05-02 15:17:54 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 07:25:22AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Perhaps the patch quoted below should also go into stable? It'd be nice
> > to fix that regression for 4.4 and 4.5. It's been integrated into 4.6
> > (909890355).
>
> How is it a regression in 4.4, as the commit involved didn't show up
> until 4.5?
>
> confused,

Sorry for that, I'd used git describe on the commit to determine which
branch it was contained in (outputting v4.3-1188-g4b3a321). That
obviously doesn't make sense though, as that just returns the state of
the tree at which 4b3a3212233a was introduced, not the commit it was
merged into mainline.

Andres