Re: [BENCHMARK] nproc: netlink access to /proc information

Paulo Marques
2004-08-30T13:47:04Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
>>>This seems to go wrong on big-endian machines; any chance you could look
>>>over your stuff and try to figure out what endianness issues it may have?
>
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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
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>>I went over the code but at a first glance couldn't find a notorius
>>trouble spot. I don't have big-endian hardware myself so this is hard to
>>test.
>>Just a few questions to help me out in finding the problem:
>>- is this really an endianess problem or is it a 64-bit integer problem?
>
>
> Works fine on x86-64 and alpha. Prints gibberish on sparc64.
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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
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>>- are you cross compiling the kernel?
>>Thanks in advance,
>
>
> No. All native.

Can you send me an ".tmp_kallsyms2.S" obtained after a kernel build on a
sparc64, so that I can isolate the problem between scripts/kallsyms.c
and kernel/kallsyms.c? (maybe gzip'ed and in private, because this can
be a big file...)

Thanks for all the help in debugging this.

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