From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758098AbXKNN4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:56:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754312AbXKNN4M (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:56:12 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:50159 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752585AbXKNN4K (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:56:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:56:05 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel , Dmitry Adamushko Subject: Re: Divide-by-zero in the 2.6.23 scheduler code Message-ID: <20071114135605.GC3739@elte.hu> References: <473A4C0F.6070504@redhat.com> <1195046856.6924.21.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1195046856.6924.21.camel@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7-deb -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Peter Zijlstra wrote: > As for the patch, better to just rip out the entire feature.. for -stable it's safer to have smaller patches - so this patch is perfectly fine. A user can turn it back on under SCHED_DEBUG and by tweaking a debug flag - but that's not a big issue, you can mess up the system in numerous ways via /proc/sys anyway. So i'd suggest Chuck's patch for -stable. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Ingo