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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 10:16:54 +0100
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* Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote:

> Ping?
> 
> This is current top crasher.
> I hope this patch is applied before the merge window opens.

1) A false positive is not a 'crasher', it's a bug in instrumentation.

2) A false positive in intrusive instrumentation that top distributions do 
   not enable in their kernels has no immediate relevance to the timing of 
   the merge window.

Thanks,

	Ingo