From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "Todd R. Eigenschink" <todd@tekinteractive.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interrupt count (/proc/stat) change in 2.4.19-pre9
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 00:17:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020530001757.A26137@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15605.42173.758778.408074@rtfm.ofc.tekinteractive.com>
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:04:13PM -0500, Todd R. Eigenschink wrote:
> Is it trying to induce some sort of intentional overflow in the
> interrupt count, or is there some other big-picture change that
> requires this? I see the comment from the BK changeset, but I still
> don't understand the purpose.
It's a brown paper bag. By making the counts 9 digits long, the bug in
the old code that the patch fixed was triggered.
-ben
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2002-05-30 4:04 interrupt count (/proc/stat) change in 2.4.19-pre9 Todd R. Eigenschink
2002-05-30 4:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
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