linux-ext4 - Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext4: critical info format fix in __ext4_grp_locked

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Message-ID: <20110317020833.GA2344@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:08:33 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext4: critical info format fix in
 __ext4_grp_locked_error

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:56:31AM +0800, Robin Dong wrote:
> From: Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>
> 
> When we do performence-testing on ext4 filesystem, we observe a warning like this:
> 
> "[ 1684.113205] EXT4-fs error (device sda7): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:718: group 259825901 blocks in bitmap, 26057 in gd"
> 
> indeed, it should be
> 
> "group 2598, 25901 blocks in bitmap, 26057 in gd"
> 
> Reviewed-by: Coly Li <bosong.ly@...bao.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>
> ---

<formletter>

This is not how you get a patch applied to the stable tree.  Please read
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to properly do this.

thanks,

greg k-h

</formletter>
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