Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:23:47 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] ftrace updates for 2.6.28 |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> The following patches are in: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git > > branch: devel > > Steven Rostedt (2): > ftrace: disable tracing on resize > ring-buffer: prevent infinite looping on time stamping > > ---- > kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- > kernel/trace/trace.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
pulled into tip/tracing/urgent, thanks Steve!
> The following patches are needed for 2.6.28. The first one solves a > bug where the resizing of the buffer array was not protected against > modifications by ftrace. > > The second patch solves an issue tha Thomas Gleixner was seeing > where the tracer would detect the infinite recursion too easily by > tracing the timer code. This patch prevents the loop from happening > and still does not lose any trace entries. > > The changes caused by these patches are low in risk, but I would > still like to put them through linux-next before passing them off to > Linus. > > Note, these changes are based against Linus's mainline and not tip. > Also note that the branch in this tree is "devel" and not > "tip/devel".
that's OK. I resolved the (trivial) conflict with pending changes in tip/tracing/ftrace and pushed out a new ftrace integration branch towards linux-next.
Ingo
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