linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.33-rc8-rt2

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002270907470.4245@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:10:24 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>, nando@...ma.Stanford.EDU,
	Carsten Emde <ce@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.33-rc8-rt2

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> kernel/trace/latency_hist.c
>    341  static ssize_t
>    342  latency_hist_reset(struct file *file, const char __user *a,
>    343                     size_t size, loff_t *off)
>    344  {
>    345          int cpu;
>    346          struct hist_data *hist = NULL;
>    347  #if defined(CONFIG_WAKEUP_LATENCY_HIST) || \
>    348      defined(CONFIG_MISSED_TIMER_OFFSETS_HIST)
>    349          struct maxlatproc_data *mp = NULL;
>    350  #endif
>    351          off_t latency_type = (off_t) file->private_data;
>    352  
>    353          for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>    354  
>    355                  switch (latency_type) {
> 
> It seems like this switch statement should have a default case.
> 
> I haven't looked into it very closely but it seems like if you had all 
> those config options turned off then "hist" would be still be NULL.

When all config options are turned off then the file is not compiled
at all.

Thanks,

	tglx
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