Re: [tip:tracing/syscalls] tracing/core: fix early free of cpumasks

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > This never made it into 2.6.29, nor do I see it yet in mainline.
> > > 
> > > This can cause unpredictable results with ftrace. We are freeing a 
> > > cpu mask that will be later used.
> > 
> > Yes ... but CONFIG_OFFSTACK is only possible as a debug option right 
> > now. So it's far less serious of an issue, it needs 2-3 unlikely 
> > features to be combined.
> 
> And unfortunately for Johannes, he must have had all those 
> features configured :-/ He spent pretty much the entire day trying 
> to figure out why ftrace was broken.

Okay - will forward the fix to -stable once it's upstream.

	Ingo
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