From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Muli Ben-Yehuda" <muli@il.ibm.com>,
"Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvz.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: + sys_getppid-oopses-on-debug-kernel.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:39:52 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D8B048.8060103@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155050547.5729.91.camel@localhost.localdomain>
>>Even without getting into just how ugly this is, is it really worth
>>it?
it is impossible to run debug kernels w/o this patch :/
or are you asking whether this optimization worth it?
What makes me worry is that this is a sign that vendors
don't even bother to run debug kernels :((((
> It never was in my opinion but I lost that battle to Linus in 1.3.40 or
> so timescales. Given how critical getppid _isnt_ I don't see the point
> in being clever.
Alan, if you sign off the patch I will prepare another one, which removes
the optimization away and make it always safe.
Kirill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-08 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200608081432.k78EWprf007511@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-08-08 14:39 ` + sys_getppid-oopses-on-debug-kernel.patch added to -mm tree Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-08-08 14:51 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-08 14:57 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-08-08 15:22 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-08 15:39 ` Kirill Korotaev [this message]
2006-08-08 16:36 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-09 8:12 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-09 17:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-10 9:35 ` Kirill Korotaev
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