linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix the outmost stupidity of tracing

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:12:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix the outmost stupidity of tracing_off()

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 00:47 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I lost another day of waiting for a complex bug to trigger and turn
> > off tracing, which did not happen due to:
> > 
> >  commit 499e54705(tracing/ring-buffer: Only have tracing_on disable
> >  tracing buffers)
> 
> I submitted this last week: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/6/701

And how does that make up for a lost day?
 
> I forgot to Cc you.

That's still not an excuse for utter stupidity, really. Just check the
commit date vs. your discovery time.

I told you often enough to be more careful, but that one is really
beyond comprehension.

       Thomas
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