Re: [PATCH] i386, nmi: signed vs unsigned mixup

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c::nmi_watchdog_tick(), the variable `sum' is 
> of type "int" but it's used to store the result of 
> per_cpu(irq_stat, cpu).apic_timer_irqs which is an "unsigned int", it's
> also later compared to last_irq_sums[cpu] which is also an 
> "unsigned int", so `sum' really ought to be unsigned itself.
> This small patch makes that change.
> 
> ...
> 
> --- linux-2.6.15-rc1-git7-orig/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c	2005-11-12 18:07:14.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-git7/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c	2005-11-19 23:58:17.000000000 +0100
> @@ -528,9 +528,10 @@ void nmi_watchdog_tick (struct pt_regs *
>  	 * Since current_thread_info()-> is always on the stack, and we
>  	 * always switch the stack NMI-atomically, it's safe to use
>  	 * smp_processor_id().
>  	 */
> -	int sum, cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +	unsigned int sum;
> +	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>  
>  	sum = per_cpu(irq_stat, cpu).apic_timer_irqs;
>  
>  	if (last_irq_sums[cpu] == sum) {
> 

-ETOOTRIVIAL.  The code as-is works OK, and we have these sorts of things
all over the tee.