[PATCH -next-20080709] fixup stop_machine use cpu mask vs ftrace
Ingo Molnar
mingo at elte.hu
Fri Jul 11 17:46:03 EST 2008
* Milton Miller <miltonm at 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.
Ingo
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