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Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error

From Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error
Date 2016-02-15 21:20 +0100
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On Monday 15 February 2016 12:47:46 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:26:42 +0100
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> 
> > In my randconfig tests, I came across a bug that involves several
> > components:
> > 
> >
> 
> [..]
> 
> > 
> > This patch avoids the problem by changing __trace_if() to check
> > whether the condition is known at compile-time to be nonzero, rather
> > than checking whether it is actually a constant.
> > 
> > I see this one link error in roughly one out of 1600 randconfig builds
> > on ARM, and the patch fixes all known instances.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y")
> 
> Want me to pull this into my queue? I have another patch I need to send
> to Linus and I can add this in that pull request.

That would be nice, yes.

Do you also want to add a 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org' tag?

	Arnd

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[PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-12 22:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-12 22:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-12 23:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-12 23:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-12 23:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-02-12 22:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-15 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-15 21:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-15 21:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-16 10:30 +0100

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