Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:07:01PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> Hello Andi,
> 
> sorry, due to some mail sending/refusing problems, I had to resend to the 
> nfs-list, which prevented the answers there to be posted to the other CCs.
> 
> > It is most likely some kind of user space problem.  I would change
> > it to int err = stat(dir, &buf);
> > and then go through it with gdb and see what value err gets assigned.
> >
> > I cannot see any kernel problem.
> 
> The err value will become -1 here.

strace didn't say so, and normally it doesn't lie about things like this.

> > bernd@hitchcock tests>./test_stat32 /mnt/test/yp
> > stat for /mnt/test/yp failed
> > ernno: 75 (Value too large for defined data type)

errno is undefined unless a system call returned -1 before or
you set it to 0 before.

> > But why does stat64() on a 64-bit kernel tries to fill in larger data than

A 64bit kernel has no stat64(). All stats are 64bit.

> > on a 32-bit kernel and larger data also only for nfs-mount points? Hmm, I
> > will tomorrow compare the tcp-packges sent by the server.
> 
> So I still think thats a kernel bug.

Your data so far doesn't support this assertion.

-Andi