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* __hw_perf_counter_init() on x86
@ 2009-09-09  6:49 David Miller
  2009-09-09  8:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2009-09-09  6:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mingo; +Cc: a.p.zijlstra, linux-kernel


It seems that for most of the error returns this function
can give, we'll leak the active_counters count grabbed
at the beginning of the function and therefore we'll never
re-enable the LAPIC NMI watchdog even once all the perf
counter users go away.

Just FYI...

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