linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] NULL pointer might be used in ips

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Message-ID: <4C9305C8.60609@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:08:08 +0800
From:	Minskey Guo <chaohong_guo@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
CC:	minskey guo <chaohong.guo@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chaohong.guo@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  NULL pointer might be used in ips_monitor()

On 09/16/2010 08:53 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:06:28 +0800
> minskey guo<chaohong.guo@...ux.intel.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> From: minskey guo<chaohong_guo@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>>   The patch is to enable creating ips_adjust thread before ips_monitor
>>   executes because the latter will kthread_stop() or wake up the former
>>   via ips->adjust pointer. Otherwise, it is possible that ips->adjust
>> is NULL when kthread_stop() or wake_up_process() is called in
>> ips_monitor()
>>
>>   Besides, some trival changes:
>>     a) correct an define of register bits;
>>     b) old_cpu_power sample should not be divided by 65535
>>     c) handling on error path in ips_get_i915_syms()
>>      
> Excellent, thanks for the fixes.  Can you split up the patch into
> individual fixes and send them over to the platform driver list and
> Matthew Garrett?  You can add my acked-by on them.
>
> Thanks,
>    


Ok.  I split it into 4 patches,  and sent to platform driver list:
platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org.


-minskey
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