From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:35:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Don't accidentally clear high bits in bdw_limit_period() Message-Id: <20180319083530.GE4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> List-Id: References: <20180317115216.GB4035@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20180317115216.GB4035@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 02:52:16PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > We intended to clear the lowest 6 bits but because of a type bug we > clear the high 32 bits as well. Andi says that periods are rarely more > than U32_MAX so this bug probably doesn't have a huge runtime impact. Thanks Dan!