Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757526AbYJMPNn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:13:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755026AbYJMPNf (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:13:35 -0400 Received: from outbound-sin.frontbridge.com ([207.46.51.80]:15473 "EHLO SG2EHSOBE002.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752231AbYJMPNe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:13:34 -0400 X-BigFish: VPS-48(z34a4lz62a3L1432R9370P98dR936eQ1805M936fOzzzzz32i6bh61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-WSS-ID: 0K8ONM2-02-PL8-01 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:13:07 +0200 From: Robert Richter To: Arnd Bergmann CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras , linux-kernel , oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net, cel , cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile Message-ID: <20081013151307.GA23557@erda.amd.com> References: <1217620879.15667.145.camel@carll-linux-desktop> <18610.20951.764057.574721@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <200808250955.57638.arnd@arndb.de> <200810131653.29631.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200810131653.29631.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Oct 2008 15:13:20.0694 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A5D8D60:01C92D46] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1698 Lines: 50 On 13.10.08 16:53:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Monday 25 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > > > > > Since rc4 is out now, I understand if you feel more comfortable with > > > > putting the patch into -next instead of -merge. > > > > > > Linus has been getting stricter about only putting in fixes for > > > regressions and serious bugs (see his recent email to Dave Airlie on > > > LKML for instance). ?I assume that the corruption is just in the data > > > that is supplied to userspace and doesn't extend to any kernel data > > > structures. > > > > That's right, please queue it for -next then. > > I just realized that this patch never made it into powerpc-next after > all, neither benh nor paulus version. Whoever is handling it today, > could you please pull > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/cell-2.6.git merge > > to get this commit below. I have rebased it on top of the current > benh/powerpc/next branch. All powerpc oprofile patches are in this branch: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git powerpc-for-paul Pending patches are: Carl Love (1): powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile Roel Kluin (1): powerpc/cell/oprofile: vma_map: fix test on overlay_tbl_offset Please pull from there. -Robert -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Operating System Research Center email: robert.richter@amd.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/