Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Eran Liberty <liberty@extricom.com>
cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
       Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>, Alan Modra <amodra@au1.ibm.com>,
       Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3)
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Eran Liberty wrote:
> mon> X
> ~ #
> 
> And took it for a test drive
> ~# while [ 1 ] ; do find / > /dev/null ; echo .  ; done
> .
> .
> .
> [ 10 min later ]
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Stable! Yeepee.

Eran, thanks a lot for testing this!

> 
> So how do we get this to be right in the first place and everywhere?
> 

This is a bug in gcc, and should be mentioned to the gcc maintainers.

-- Steve

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