From: Mijo Safradin <msafradin@gmx.de>
To: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, safradin@de.ibm.com, arnd@arndb.de,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Re: PATCH] numactl: fix libnuma on big-endian 64-bit systems
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:52:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493F915D.9090909@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1L8ejM-0003Ln-VN@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Cliff Wickman wrote:
> linux-numa@vger.kernel.org
>
> Arnd Bergmann and Mijo Safradin called my attention to problems with
> libnuma's read_mask() on a big-endian 64-bit machine.
>
> In testing that function I found it to be buggy on little-endian and 32-bit
> systems as well.
>
> I propose a function that looks like the below. The patch is farther below.
> (Arnd, I did not switch to longs, as that proved problematic. The ascii hex
> strings being scanned are 32-bit values.)
>
> I tested on a 64-bit MIPS system. Could you test on your platform?
>
Hi Cliff,
using the current numactl-2.0.3-rc1.tar.gz, which contains your patch.
numademo breaks with "mbind: Invalid argument".
Mijo
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2008-12-05 17:44 [Re: PATCH] numactl: fix libnuma on big-endian 64-bit systems Cliff Wickman
2008-12-10 9:52 ` Mijo Safradin [this message]
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