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SubjectRe: [PATCH] system timer: fix crash in <100Hz system timer
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:51:09 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> >> + do_div(x, HZ / USER_HZ);
> >> + #endif
> >> #else
> >> /*
> >> * There are better ways that don't overflow early,
> >
> > Alas, I get 100% rejects due to conflicting changes from Peter's
> > avoid-overflows-in-kernel-timec.patch.
> >
> > Peter, did that patch propagate this failure, or might it have happily
> > fixed it?
> >
>
> My patch doesn't touch any of these functions, nor touches any code
> within 70 lines of this patch -- the last line touched is line 478 --
> and doesn't touch linux/acct.h at all, so how could it cause a conflict?

oop, sorry, it was the mime-mess-mangles-everything problem and I failed to
spot it.

> But no, it doesn't fix this particular problem, even if using a similar
> technique might very well be a better way to do this kind of conversion.

OK.


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