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From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>
Cc: dtrace@lists.linux.dev, dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: use a more stable data item
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:39:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmokl5dm.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202404260431.43Q4VLTS004320@pps.reinject> (Kris Van Hees's message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:31:20 -0400")

On 26 Apr 2024, Kris Van Hees said:

> The runtime bounds check exception for dynamically sized arrays in
> kernel structures depended on a kernel symbol that is not quite as
> stable as expected.  Use a member from the mm_struct instead.

Your assumption that it was analyzed in any way for stability is
touching, but inaccurate :P

Pure gut feeling replaced with something a bit more obviously sorta
stable (at least it needs more work to massively change it upstream,
and massive mm changes are fairly rare):

> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-26 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-26  4:31 [PATCH] test: use a more stable data item Kris Van Hees
2024-04-26 11:39 ` Nick Alcock [this message]

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