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Date:	Fri, 25 May 2007 09:31:58 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups

> if (!f)
> 	f = cpufreq_get(freq->cpu);
> if (!f)
> 	f = tsc_khz;
> 
> ?
> 
> Something's not quite right here :-)

What do you think is wrong? cpufreq_get can return 0.

Admittedly the second test could be inside a block of the first,
but then it would make the code more ugly and this code is not
performance critical.

-Andi
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