On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:57:14 -0500 Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Vedang Patel <[email protected]> > > A duplicate in the tracing_map hash table is when 2 different entries > have the same key and, as a result, the key_hash. This is possible due > to a race condition in the algorithm. This race condition is inherent to > the algorithm and not a bug. This was fine because, until now, we were > only interested in the sum of all the values related to a particular > key (the duplicates are dealt with in tracing_map_sort_entries()). But, > with the inclusion of variables[1], we are interested in individual > values. So, it will not be clear what value to choose when > there are duplicates. So, the duplicates need to be removed. > > [1] - https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/26/751 FYI, something like this should have: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] And avoid any non kernel.org archiving system. -- Steve > > Signed-off-by: Vedang Patel <[email protected]> > --- >
