Re: ftrace 2.6.30-rc4: possible circular locking dependency

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 11:11:29 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hi Tetsuo,
>
> Thanks for the report. But we already have a fix for it. But the change is
> a bit of design change, and it is one of those things that is hard to know
> if we should push it up stream this late in the RCs.
>
> We probably should. But the change affects two different subsystems. It
> affects ftrace as well as the module code. There's a bit of changes to the
> module code (Rusty being the maintainer) where we would be more
> comfortable if it goes via Rusty.
>
> Rusty and Ingo,
>
> What is the best way to get this change upstream?
>
> Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/548
>
> tip git SHA1: 93eb677d74a4f7d3edfb678c94f6c0544d9fbad2

Would be nice to have a non-conflicting version against latest -git
- which Tetsuo could test as well, and which i could apply if the
test is successful.

Ingo
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