Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 May 2002 00:17:57 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: interrupt count (/proc/stat) change in 2.4.19-pre9 |
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:04:13PM -0500, Todd R. Eigenschink wrote: > Is it trying to induce some sort of intentional overflow in the > interrupt count, or is there some other big-picture change that > requires this? I see the comment from the BK changeset, but I still > don't understand the purpose.
It's a brown paper bag. By making the counts 9 digits long, the bug in the old code that the patch fixed was triggered.
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