From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] NUMA x86: add constraints check for nid parameters
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:34:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111201133451.5fc1ee7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322739907-4695-1-git-send-email-pholasek@redhat.com>
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:45:07 +0100
Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> wrote:
> This patch adds constraints checks into __node_distance() and
> numa_set_distance() functions. If from or to parameters are
> lower than zero, it results into oops now.
Passing negative numbers into __node_distance() sounds like a bug in
the caller, and this patch will remove our means of detecting that bug.
Perhaps we need to be told more about this patch. Is the bug
user-triggerable? If so, how? How was this fault triggered?
Etcetera.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 11:45 [PATCH RESEND] NUMA x86: add constraints check for nid parameters Petr Holasek
2011-12-01 21:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-12-01 23:14 ` Petr Holasek
2011-12-01 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-02 10:55 ` Petr Holasek
2011-12-06 20:45 ` David Rientjes
2011-12-07 19:40 ` Petr Holasek
2011-12-07 19:43 ` [PATCH v2] " Petr Holasek
2011-12-07 21:46 ` David Rientjes
2011-12-08 12:16 ` [PATCH v3] " Petr Holasek
2011-12-08 21:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-12-09 7:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-09 10:44 ` David Rientjes
2011-12-09 20:08 ` [tip:x86/mm] x86/numa: Add " tip-bot for Petr Holasek
2011-12-08 18:58 ` [PATCH v2] NUMA x86: add " Andi Kleen
2011-12-08 21:12 ` David Rientjes
2011-12-09 7:11 ` Ingo Molnar
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