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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:49:19 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> Subject: Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote: > > Ingo, > > The bug that is fixed by this change can affect users. Most likely it will > not, since the fault should never happen. But this is a protective > mechanism, where if it does, that means there is a bug in the tracer. > > As you have previously told me, a bug in the tracer should never crash the > kernel. Since the detection of a fault in the function graph tracer can > lead to a kernel crash (without this change) I think this qualifies as > something for 29. Yeah, definitely so. > -- Steve > > > The following patch is in: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git > > branch: tip/tracing/urgent > > > Steven Rostedt (1): > tracing, x86: fix fixup section to return to original code > > ---- > arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 8 +++++--- > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Pulled into tip:tracing/urgent, thanks Steve! Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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