linux-kernel - Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken

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Date:	Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:00:30 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Dmitry Adamushko" <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>,
	"Max Krasnyansky" <maxk@...lcomm.com>, "Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, miaox@...fujitsu.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken

O Master Penguin,

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Assuming I didn't do anythign stupid, of course, which is why it would
> definitely need much more testing. And especially if Vegard can test it
> with the case that oopsed for him due to the bad migration..

Your patch has been tested and found to be working!

It was applied on top of latest linux-2.6.git with the right config
and passed all my tests, including the bad test-case.

(A little pet horse for the occasion: Testing can show the presence of
errors, but not their absence. But that's a different story.)


Vegard

-- 
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
	-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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