From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] garbage values in file /proc/net/sockstat
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:11:51 +0100
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On Monday 23 January 2006 14:28, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Shouldnt we force a page fault for not possible cpus in cpu_data
> to catch all access to per_cpu(some_object, some_not_possible_cpu) ?
>
> We can use a red zone big enough to hold the whole per_cpu data.

Good idea. Can you please send me a tested patch?

-Andi
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