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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression, post-2.6.34-rc1][PATCH] x86 / perf: Fix suspend to RAM on HP nx6325
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:10:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269133835.9440.621.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003202148.01312.rjw@sisk.pl>

On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 21:48 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >  
> > >  	cpuhw = &per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, cpu);
> > > +	if (!cpuhw)
> > > +		return;
> > 
> > How can an address-of expression be NULL?
> > 
> > Yes, 'per_cpu()' is magic, but it shouldn't be possible to be _that_ 
> > magic. It's rather against the whole C model.
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> A field in the object pointed to by it can be NULL, though.

That's what I was aiming for,. might have missed it by a mile though :/

> The appended patch fixes the breakage for me too.

ok, works for me, thanks


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-21  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-20 14:07 Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-03-20 17:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-20 17:47   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-20 20:48     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-03-21  1:10       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-03-21 17:31       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-21 20:51         ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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