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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2013-07-08 14:44:04 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-07-12 14:13:04 +0200
commitbaf64b85445546a38b44052d71782dfe7531e350 (patch)
tree123db75d91d993ec405500d609c67844488db216 /arch
parent058ebd0eba3aff16b144eabf4510ed9510e1416e (diff)
downloadlinux-baf64b85445546a38b44052d71782dfe7531e350.tar.gz
perf/x86: Fix incorrect use of do_div() in NMI warning
I completely botched understanding the calling conventions of
do_div().  I assumed that do_div() returned the result instead
of realizing that it modifies its argument and returns a
remainder.  The side-effect from this would be bogus numbers
for the "msecs" value in the warning messages:

	INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 0.114 msecs

Note, there was a second fix posted by Stephane Eranian for
a separate patch which I also botched:

	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130704223010.GA30625@quad

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130708214404.B0B6EA66@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
index 0920212e6159..ba77ebc2c353 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static int __kprobes nmi_handle(unsigned int type, struct pt_regs *regs, bool b2
 	 */
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(a, &desc->head, list) {
 		u64 before, delta, whole_msecs;
-		int decimal_msecs, thishandled;
+		int remainder_ns, decimal_msecs, thishandled;
 
 		before = local_clock();
 		thishandled = a->handler(type, regs);
@@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ static int __kprobes nmi_handle(unsigned int type, struct pt_regs *regs, bool b2
 			continue;
 
 		nmi_longest_ns = delta;
-		whole_msecs = do_div(delta, (1000 * 1000));
-		decimal_msecs = do_div(delta, 1000) % 1000;
+		whole_msecs = delta;
+		remainder_ns = do_div(whole_msecs, (1000 * 1000));
+		decimal_msecs = remainder_ns / 1000;
 		printk_ratelimited(KERN_INFO
 			"INFO: NMI handler (%ps) took too long to run: "
 			"%lld.%03d msecs\n", a->handler, whole_msecs,