From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755247Ab0IJX1Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:27:25 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:41834 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751618Ab0IJX1Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:27:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=hOYpfSWPE9Abs+B7aA9PTaOvdqln421nbkfNEpZTgtYn1UCW6PE3MREkKvrcJ91URZ gIPCqR9pzPZndwY3/Y2m23QcPj23v+/Xju0rVX0DKVLd8+38NnOGx+KyXoyhGIVKO3yj m7mx+NqzoZa+JBpWnnYcTmHPsLHyolqJGI2qs= Message-ID: <4C8ABF15.8000108@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:28:21 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Randy Dunlap , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian , Eric Dumazet , 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 References: <4c88dca1.44e7d80a.577e.3592@mx.google.com> <1284040322.2589.174.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1284106566.402.26.camel@laptop> <4C89EF37.5080803@kernel.org> <4C89F1CE.4050302@gmail.com> <1284108918.402.31.camel@laptop> <20100910093115.2f0859af.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20100910164525.GA11188@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20100910164525.GA11188@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/10/2010 06:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Randy Dunlap 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 >>>> Spotted-by: Peter Zijlstra >>> >>> (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