From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:28:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8ABF15.8000108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100910164525.GA11188@elte.hu>
On 09/10/2010 06:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * 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]
Oh, I already updated it to be Reported-by. I use Spotted-by when to
distinguish the cases where the root cause is diagnosed by the
reporter as opposed to when the reporter just reported a bug but I
suppose it's just causing more confusion. I'll just use Reproted-by
from now on.
Thank you.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 23:27 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
2010-09-10 23:28 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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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