linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] ftrace: updates to tip

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901191942100.8778@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:42:32 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] ftrace: updates to tip


On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > Ingo,
> > 
> > The one patch I did here, will need to go to stable as well. I'll write
> > up a patch against stable, and as soon as it gets into Linus's tree,
> > it should also be pulled into stable as well. Without the patch, some
> > archs will not be able to perform any tracing. There is an alignment
> > issue that will cause the ring buffer to fail to commit any transactions.
> > 
> 
> False alarm on the stable side. The code in question did not make it in 
> 2.6.28, so there is nothing to worry about there.

But it does need to get into 2.6.29.

-- Steve

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