linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/7] ftrace: fix task state printout

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Message-ID: <20081219213641.GB2351@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:36:41 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Clark Williams <clark.williams@...il.com>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Linux-rt <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] ftrace: fix task state printout


* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> 2008/12/19 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>:
> > Impact: tracer task state decoding is wrong, size check is buggy
> >
> > The tracing code has interesting varieties of printing out task state.
> > Unfortunalely only one of the instances is correct as it copies the
> > code from sched.c:sched_show_task(). The others are plain wrong as
> > they treatthe bitfield as an integer offset into the character
> > array. Also the size check of the character array is wrong as it
> > includes the trailing \0.
> >
> > Use a common state decoder inline which does the Right Thing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> 
> You've already sent it out. It has been applied on -tip :-)

That's why the subject line of the series says "2.6.24.7-rt24 bugfixes" i 
guess :-)

	Ingo
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