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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next-20080709] fixup stop_machine use cpu mask vs ftrace
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On Friday 11 July 2008 17:46:03 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rusty, Ingo.
> >
> > Rusty's patch [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine: use cpu mask rather than magic
> > numbers didn't find kernel/trace/ftrace.c in -next, causing an
> > immediate almost NULL pointer dereference in ftrace_dynamic_init.
>
> Rusty - what's going on here? Please do not change APIs like that, which
> cause code to crash. Either do a compatible API change, or change it
> over in a way that causes clear build failures, not crashes.

To be fair, I did. Unfortunately GCC only warns about passing an int to a
pointer arg, and boom.

But compatible is even better. Given the number of stop_machine_run users I
thought it unlikely that a new one would be introduced during the change. I
was wrong, so I'll do it the Right Way.

Cheers,
Rusty.


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