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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: levon@movementarian.org
Cc: weigand@immd1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [8/7] oprofile - dcookies need to use u32
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:12:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016.181213.35446337.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021017011623.GA9096@compsoc.man.ac.uk>

   From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
   Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 02:16:23 +0100

   On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:55:15PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
   
   > True.
   > 
   > What if you could query the cookie size at runtime?
   
   Not sure what you mean here. The cookie is passed in the syscall, so has
   to be fixed-size no matter what, right ?
   
Right, but you could zero-extend that from u32 if u32
were the size appropriate for the current kernel.

I'm trying to decrease the size of your logfile.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-17  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-16  1:56 [PATCH] [8/7] oprofile - dcookies need to use u32 Ulrich Weigand
2002-10-16  2:00 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-16 16:40   ` John Levon
2002-10-16 18:29     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-16 21:38     ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17  0:57       ` John Levon
2002-10-17  0:55         ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17  1:16           ` John Levon
2002-10-17  1:12             ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-10-19  0:26               ` John Levon
2002-10-19  0:23                 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-19  0:34                   ` John Levon
2002-10-19  0:31                     ` David S. Miller
2002-10-19  0:40                       ` John Levon
2002-10-19  0:35                         ` David S. Miller
2002-11-01  4:33                       ` John Levon
2002-11-01 10:27                         ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-15 22:32 [PATCH] [2/7] oprofile - dcookies John Levon
2002-10-15 23:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-16  0:06   ` [PATCH] [8/7] oprofile - dcookies need to use u32 John Levon
2002-10-16  0:01     ` David S. Miller
2002-10-16  1:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-16  1:35       ` John Levon

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