Re: [tip:tracing/syscalls] tracing/core: fix early free of cpumasks
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- Subject: Re: [tip:tracing/syscalls] tracing/core: fix early free of cpumasks
- From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:17:11 +0200
- Cc: mingo@xxxxxxxxxx, hpa@xxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx, tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>, linux-tip-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxx
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > This never made it into 2.6.29, nor do I see it yet in mainline.
> > >
> > > This can cause unpredictable results with ftrace. We are freeing a
> > > cpu mask that will be later used.
> >
> > Yes ... but CONFIG_OFFSTACK is only possible as a debug option right
> > now. So it's far less serious of an issue, it needs 2-3 unlikely
> > features to be combined.
>
> And unfortunately for Johannes, he must have had all those
> features configured :-/ He spent pretty much the entire day trying
> to figure out why ftrace was broken.
Okay - will forward the fix to -stable once it's upstream.
Ingo
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