Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:04:52 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        mingo@elte.hu, ak@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com,
        zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] perf/x86: implement cross-HT corruption bug
 workaround
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 05:01:25PM +0300, Maria Dimakopoulou wrote:
> Are you saying it is illegal to call kmalloc() from
> this context?
> 
> kmalloc is needed because we need to allocate
> a new constraint struct since the static constraint
> cannot be modified.
> 
> Worst case we can statically allocate a second
> constraint struct in the event struct.

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Please do not top-post.

Thanks.

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    Boris.

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