From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] Avoid divide by zero errors in sched.c
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:17:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508122317.04387.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123852222.9234.7.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:10, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> This patch fixes a divide-by-zero error that I hit on a two-way i386
> machine. rq->nr_running is tested to be non-zero, but may change by the
> time it is used in the division. Saving the value to a local variable
> ensures that the same value that is checked is used in the division.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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2005-08-12 13:10 [-mm patch] Avoid divide by zero errors in sched.c Dave Kleikamp
2005-08-12 13:17 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
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