linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:45:25 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	MINOURA Makoto <minoura@...inux.co.jp>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@...ian.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com,
	Hervé Commowick <hcommowick@...sec.fr>,
	Rand@...per.es
Subject: Re: 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 14:50 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> > thanks for the patch! I'll put this on our testing boxes...
> 
> With a patch that frobs the starting value close to overflowing I hope,
> otherwise we'll not hear from you in like 7 months ;-)
> 
> > Are You going to push this upstream so we can ask Greg to push this to
> > -stable? 
> 
> Yeah, I think we want to commit this with a -stable tag, Ingo?

yeah - and we also want a Reported-by tag and an explanation of how 
it can crash and why it matters in practice. I can then stick it into 
the urgent branch for Linus. (probably will only hit upstream in the 
merge window though.)

Thanks,

	Ingo
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