Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix potential overflow in perfctr reservation

Hello. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:09:17 -0700), Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > [PATCH] x86: Fix potential overflow in perfctr reservation : > The created a warning storm: > > > arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c: In function 'avail_to_resrv_perfctr_nmi_bit': >

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix potential overflow in perfctr reservation

> > The created a warning storm: Hmm, yes good idea to fix that. Probably for x86-64 too. > > I worry rather a lot about how well runtime tested this very late change > was, I tested it with oprofile and checked the nmi watchdog. > and whether it works correctly even with this fix applied.

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix potential overflow in perfctr reservation

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:59:10 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1714f9bfc92d6ee67e84127332a1fae27772acfe > Commit: 1714f9bfc92d6ee67e84127332a1fae27772acfe > Parent: 08269c6d38e003adb12f55c