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SubjectRe: [PATCH percpu#for-next] percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator
On 09/10/2010 06:45 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:55:18 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:52 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>> Percpu allocator should clear memory before returning it but the km
>>>> allocator forgot to do it. Fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>>>> Spotted-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>>
>>> (fwiw, -tip uses Reported-by)
>>
>> fyi, Documentation/SubmittingPatches does also.
>
> Yeah, and, FYI, there's observed strong correlation between the
> maintenance policies of -tip and Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
> [i'd even venture so far to claim causation]

Oh, I already updated it to be Reported-by. I use Spotted-by when to
distinguish the cases where the root cause is diagnosed by the
reporter as opposed to when the reporter just reported a bug but I
suppose it's just causing more confusion. I'll just use Reproted-by
from now on.

Thank you.

--
tejun


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