Re: [PATCH v21 0/9] ring-buffer: Making persistent ring buffers robust

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 26 May 2026 14:17:46 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2026 13:08:57 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This is to make the persistent ring buffer more robust when sub-buffers
> > are detected to be corrupted. Instead of invalidating the entire buffer,
> > just invalidate the individual sub-buffers.
> > 
> > I started with Masami's patches and modified some from Sashiko reviews.
> > I added a few patches to display the dropped events when the persistent
> > ring buffers validation checks found sub-buffers were dropped due to being
> > corrupted data.  
> 
> It seems that Sashiko still marks it "Incompleted".
> Maybe we need base-commit: tag in this cover mail?
> I also guess that this series does not use "In-Reply-To:" but
> only uses "References:" tag in the mail header. I guess
> Sashiko's mail header parser missed it.

But this applies to mainline. I'm not sure why it's having problems.

-- Steve