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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] oprofile, x86: Convert memory allocation to static array
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 23:41:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110801214130.GF27083@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801213142.GE11795@erda.amd.com>

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:31:42PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 01.08.11 11:08:59, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > On -rt, allocators don't work from atomic context any more,
> > and the maximum size of the array is known at compile time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
> 
> Applied to oprofile/core. Thanks, Maarten.

And what happens when the CPU reports more than 32 counters?
You have a silent buffer overflow then.

Besides I bet there are other cases like this all over the tree.

And the whole thing is tasteless. 

Nacked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-31 18:39 [PATCH v2] oprofile, x86: Move memory allocation for ppro out of per cpu Maarten Lankhorst
2011-08-01  7:07 ` Robert Richter
2011-08-01 12:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-01 14:57   ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-08-01 15:08   ` [PATCH v3] oprofile, x86: Convert memory allocation to static array Maarten Lankhorst
2011-08-01 16:20     ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-01 21:31     ` Robert Richter
2011-08-01 21:41       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-08-01 22:16         ` Robert Richter
2011-08-16 22:11           ` [PATCH] oprofile, x86: Fix overflow and warning (commit 1d12d35) Robert Richter
2011-08-01 22:02       ` [PATCH v3] oprofile, x86: Convert memory allocation to static array Peter Zijlstra

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