2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.
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From: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
No patch in mainline as this logic has been removed from 2.6.24 so it is
not necessary.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340161
The problem code
2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.
--
From: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No patch in mainline as this logic has been removed from 2.6.24 so it is
not necessary.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340161
The problem code
[ forwarded to the list ]
so far, just a brief inspection below...
>
> The divide-by-zero is here in kernel/sched.c:
> [ ... ]
>
> fair_delta64 = ls->delta_fair + 1;
> ls->delta_fair = 0;
>
> exec_delta64 = ls->delta_exec + 1;
> ls->delta_exec = 0;
>
>
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As for the patch, better to just rip out the entire feature..
for -stable it's safer to have smaller patches - so this patch is
perfectly fine. A user can turn it back on under SCHED_DEBUG and by
tweaking a debug flag - but that's not a big issue,
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 20:14 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340161
While I see the user has a divide by zero, I'm not understanding it.
> The problem code has been removed in 2.6.24. The below patch disables
> SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD which causes the
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 20:14 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340161
While I see the user has a divide by zero, I'm not understanding it.
The problem code has been removed in 2.6.24. The below patch disables
SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD which causes the
* Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for the patch, better to just rip out the entire feature..
for -stable it's safer to have smaller patches - so this patch is
perfectly fine. A user can turn it back on under SCHED_DEBUG and by
tweaking a debug flag - but that's not a big issue,
[ forwarded to the list ]
so far, just a brief inspection below...
The divide-by-zero is here in kernel/sched.c:
[ ... ]
fair_delta64 = ls-delta_fair + 1;
ls-delta_fair = 0;
exec_delta64 = ls-delta_exec + 1;
ls-delta_exec = 0;
sample_interval64
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340161
The problem code has been removed in 2.6.24. The below patch disables
SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD which causes the offending code to be skipped
but does not prevent the user from enabling it.
The divide-by-zero is here in kernel/sched.c:
static
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340161
The problem code has been removed in 2.6.24. The below patch disables
SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD which causes the offending code to be skipped
but does not prevent the user from enabling it.
The divide-by-zero is here in kernel/sched.c:
static
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