From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
mingo@elte.hu, zheng.z.yan@intel.com, bp@alien8.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/uncore: fix missing end markers for SNB/IVB/HSW IMC PMU
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:17:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqfyf27g.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140313120436.GA14236@quad> (Stephane Eranian's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:04:36 +0100")
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> writes:
> This patch fixes a bug with the SNB/IVB/HSW uncore
> mmeory controller support.
>
> The PCI Ids tables for the memory controller were missing end markers.
> That could cause random crashes on boot during or after PCI device
> registration.
I wonder if there's a way to check this in checkpatch.pl ?
Or maybe a sparse check could be added, with a new type attribute
that says "needs to be 0 terminate"
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-13 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-13 12:04 [PATCH] perf/x86/uncore: fix missing end markers for SNB/IVB/HSW IMC PMU Stephane Eranian
2014-03-13 17:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-03-13 19:35 ` Stephane Eranian
2014-03-14 8:39 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86/uncore: Fix missing end markers for SNB/ IVB/HSW " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
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