linux-kernel - Re: Divide-by-zero in the 2.6.23 scheduler code

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Message-ID: <20071114135605.GC3739@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:56:05 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Divide-by-zero in the 2.6.23 scheduler code


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> As for the patch, better to just rip out the entire feature..

for -stable it's safer to have smaller patches - so this patch is 
perfectly fine. A user can turn it back on under SCHED_DEBUG and by 
tweaking a debug flag - but that's not a big issue, you can mess up the 
system in numerous ways via /proc/sys anyway. So i'd suggest Chuck's 
patch for -stable.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

	Ingo

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