Re: [request for stable inclusion]perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:04:00AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 02/25/2014 10:51 AM, Luís Henriques wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:13:24PM +0800, Weng Meiling wrote:
> >>> Hi Luis and Ingo,
> >>>
> >>> 723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11
> >>> perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate
> >>>
> >>> Please queue this for 3.11.x and 3.12.x. It fixes a divide-by-zero bug.
> >>> The bug can be triggiered by writing 0 to /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate,
> >>> which was introduced by 14c63f17b1fde5a575a28e96547a22b451c71fb5 ("perf: Drop sample
> >>> rate when sampling is too slow").
> >
> >> Thank you Weng, I'll queue it for the 3.11 kernel.  I'm adding Greg to the
> >> CC list, as he's the 3.12 maintainer.
> >
> > Not anymore -- I am :).
> 
> Er... when/where did that happen?  I have no objections at all, but I
> do find it surprising.  Did I miss an announcement somewhere?

Where should I announce it?  It seems like when this has happened in the
past, no one noticed it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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