Re: [PATCH 5/9] perf/x86: implement cross-HT corruption bug workaround
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jun 05 2014 - 10:06:53 EST
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 05:01:25PM +0300, Maria Dimakopoulou wrote:
> Are you saying it is illegal to call kmalloc() from
> this context?
>
> kmalloc is needed because we need to allocate
> a new constraint struct since the static constraint
> cannot be modified.
>
> Worst case we can statically allocate a second
> constraint struct in the event struct.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Please do not top-post.
Thanks.
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