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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux•intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: revert of "debug: add notifier chain debugging"
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:33:28 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902183328.571911ca.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BBFAFE.7030808@linux.intel.com>

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Hi Arjan,

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:23:58 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux•intel.com> wrote:
>
> well it's a pretty bad bug since there are many places that depend on the kernel text stuff to work.
> (backtracing, lockdep, some of the security checks etc). PPC needs to be fixed rather urgently.
> but yeah the system kept plodding on.
> David also sent a patch to fix it fwiw.
> 
> I'm a bit sad to see a debug patch get reverted just because it caught bugs ;-)
> at least I assume this is very temporary.

Today I still reverted the patch, but I applied the new version as well
as applying the simple powerpc fix patch, so we shall see ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb•auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01  8:26 linux-next: revert of "debug: add notifier chain debugging" Stephen Rothwell
2008-09-01 14:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-02  8:33   ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2008-09-02 17:57   ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-02 18:00     ` David Woodhouse

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