linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup: alloc_css_id() increments hierarchy depth

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Date:	Sun, 30 May 2010 17:44:34 -0700
From:	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ben Blum <bblum@...rew.cmu.edu>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: alloc_css_id() increments hierarchy depth

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:54 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 08:45:29 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 May 2010 15:25:08 -0700
>> Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
>> >
>> > Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
>> >
>> > Good catch, thanks.
>> >
>> Nice Catch.
>> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>>
>> But, who breaks this ? Do we need backport this against old kernels ?
>>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fae9c791703606636c1220e47f6690660042ce7f
>
> Hmm. this one. and 2.6.34 needs this patch. Greg, could you post this to
> stable-2.6.34 tree ?

Given that I forgot to include "Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org>" in the
patch, I assume the best way to get this patch into -stable is for me
to email the commit id to stable@...nel.org once the patch is accepted
into Linus' tree.  Let me know if there is a better way.

--
Greg
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