Why is this patch deemed for -stable?

What bug does it solve?

confused,

greg k-h

> commit: 22ed1113a9adda6e193c329119a384362da01289
> From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 01:01:29 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Death to the unnecessary 64bit divide
> 
> Use the hardware DDA to calculate the ratio with as much accuracy as is
> possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c |   18 +++++-------------
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> index e5badad..fac118b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> @@ -2714,27 +2714,19 @@ fdi_reduce_ratio(u32 *num, u32 *den)
>       }
>  }
>  
> -#define DATA_N 0x800000
> -#define LINK_N 0x80000
> -
>  static void
>  ironlake_compute_m_n(int bits_per_pixel, int nlanes, int pixel_clock,
>                    int link_clock, struct fdi_m_n *m_n)
>  {
> -     u64 temp;
> -
>       m_n->tu = 64; /* default size */
>  
> -     temp = (u64) DATA_N * pixel_clock;
> -     temp = div_u64(temp, link_clock);
> -     m_n->gmch_m = div_u64(temp * bits_per_pixel, nlanes);
> -     m_n->gmch_m >>= 3; /* convert to bytes_per_pixel */
> -     m_n->gmch_n = DATA_N;
> +     /* BUG_ON(pixel_clock > INT_MAX / 36); */
> +     m_n->gmch_m = bits_per_pixel * pixel_clock;
> +     m_n->gmch_n = link_clock * nlanes * 8;
>       fdi_reduce_ratio(&m_n->gmch_m, &m_n->gmch_n);
>  
> -     temp = (u64) LINK_N * pixel_clock;
> -     m_n->link_m = div_u64(temp, link_clock);
> -     m_n->link_n = LINK_N;
> +     m_n->link_m = pixel_clock;
> +     m_n->link_n = link_clock;
>       fdi_reduce_ratio(&m_n->link_m, &m_n->link_n);
>  }
>  
> 
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