linux-kernel - Re: Add to stable: tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing

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Message-ID: <1341786908.25597.241.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:35:08 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Add to stable: tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from
 tracing_cpumask

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 11:43 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thomas pointed out that the buffering for tracing (other than function
> tracer - and other "tracers") is not affected by the tracing_cpumask.
> This goes back to 3.0 (and probably before that).
> 
> It's fixed with this commit: 71babb2705e2203a64c27ede13ae3508a0d2c16c
> "tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask"
> 
> Which looks to have made it into 3.5-rc1. Can you apply this to all the
> stable trees from 3.0 and beyond.

Added to the queue for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.

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