Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:09:51 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: david@fries.net, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] system timer: fix crash in <100Hz system timer
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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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