Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm3

[William Lee Irwin III]

On 2004.10.07, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Here is a more likely correct patch for what that was trying to do,
>> however misguided that may be. Untested, uncompiled, vs. 2.6.9-rc3-mm3
>> without the bad patch:
> ...
>>+static inline void profile_tick(int type, struct pt_regs *regs)
>>+{
>>+	extern cpumask_t prof_cpu_mask;
>>+

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:25:41PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> This conflicts with kernel/irq/proc.c:
> 	unsigned long prof_cpu_mask = -1;
> Shouldn't this be:
> 	cpumask_t prof_cpu_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE;
> This will show problems when NR_CPUS > sizeof(long)....
> Hope this helps.

What in the goddamned Hell? Who wrote that? What arch?


-- wli
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