Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:28:21 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH percpu#for-next] percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator |
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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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