Re: [PATCH] ftrace: As disabling interrupts is costly and write_lock variant of tasklist_lock is not held from interrupt context it is not necessary to disable interrupts.

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu May 19 2016 - 09:10:50 EST


On Thu, 19 May 2016 08:53:17 +0000
"N, Soumya P" <soumya.p.n@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Could you please explain what this error means?
> Is it related to length of subject?
> I have run checkpatch.pl on patch and didn't show any error.
>
> Thanks,
> Soumya.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Rostedt [mailto:rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:25 AM
> To: N, Soumya P <soumya.p.n@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: mingo@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: As disabling interrupts is costly and write_lock variant of tasklist_lock is not held from interrupt context it is not necessary to disable interrupts.
>
>
> -ERUNONSUBJECT

A subject (and this includes normal net etiquette as well) should be a
short description of what the email (or patch) is about, preferably
under 80 characters. What you supplied is an abstract.

it should have been something as simple as:

ftrace: Don't disable interrupts when taking read_lock() for graph tracer

And don't rely on checkpatch.pl. Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches
in the kernel proper.

-- Steve