Re: 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jul 21 2011 - 14:46:59 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 14:50 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> > thanks for the patch! I'll put this on our testing boxes...
>
> With a patch that frobs the starting value close to overflowing I hope,
> otherwise we'll not hear from you in like 7 months ;-)
>
> > Are You going to push this upstream so we can ask Greg to push this to
> > -stable?
>
> Yeah, I think we want to commit this with a -stable tag, Ingo?

yeah - and we also want a Reported-by tag and an explanation of how
it can crash and why it matters in practice. I can then stick it into
the urgent branch for Linus. (probably will only hit upstream in the
merge window though.)

Thanks,

Ingo
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