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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ftrace does not work on cpus > 999.
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:16:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101016161627.GA3567@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287242272.16971.53.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 16:45 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > index 9ec59f5..3565f9e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > @@ -3999,7 +3999,7 @@ static void tracing_init_debugfs_percpu(long cpu)
> >  	/* strlen(cpu) + MAX(log10(cpu)) + '\0' */
> >  	char cpu_dir[7];
> >  
> > -	if (cpu > 999 || cpu < 0)
> > +	if (cpu < 0)
> >  		return;
> >  
> >  	sprintf(cpu_dir, "cpu%ld", cpu);
> 
> You need to change the size of cpu_dir, otherwise this will overflow.

If you change it to 30 that ought to be enough, as long as cpu_id's fit 
into u64. (I think we wont overflow that in my lifetime.)

> The other case is to dynamically allocate cpu_dir.

Please tell me that is a joke ...

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-16 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-16 13:15 ftrace does not work on cpus > 999 Robin Holt
2010-10-16 14:45 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-10-16 15:17   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-16 16:16     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-10-16 16:32       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-16 16:32       ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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