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Message-ID: <1277213804.9181.30.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:36:44 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable <stable@...nel.org>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH for stable] tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 06:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:23:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Greg, > > > > Johannes has been hitting a bug in 2.6.33 that we believe is fixed with > > the following patch. The bug is hit a few times a week, so it is hard to > > verify. But we are only hitting it with .33 and not .34, and this patch > > looks like it would be the one to fix it. > > > > Can you apply this patch to the 2.6.33 stable series. > > If you are ok with it, I'll apply it as it does look a little "big" for > a stable kernel :) Yeah, I usually would not ask for a patch this size to go into stable, but it has been in mainline for a while, and seems to be the fix for a bug we are hitting in .33. > > I'll queue it up later today. Great! Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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