Re: [-mm patch] Avoid divide by zero errors in sched.c

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Fri Aug 12 2005 - 08:17:44 EST


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:10, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> This patch fixes a divide-by-zero error that I hit on a two-way i386
> machine. rq->nr_running is tested to be non-zero, but may change by the
> time it is used in the division. Saving the value to a local variable
> ensures that the same value that is checked is used in the division.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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