Re: hwpmc dealing with sparse cpu systems.
Joseph Koshy <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:37:15 +0530
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.smp |
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| Message-ID | <86k5prac98.wl%[email protected]> |
> One of the engineers here seems to have found a bug in the > hwpmc_mod.c module. The problem we have is that cpuids can be > greater than mp_ncpus due to sparseness. > Does the fix here make sense? (replace mp_ncpus with MAXCPU) No, a simple global substitution would probably be incorrect because it would allow userland to get hwpmc to attempt operations on non-existent CPUs. I will look into this. Regards, Koshy <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"