linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH

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Message-Id: <20080912.153703.21849753.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roland@...hat.com
Cc:	rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	utrace-devel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK and you

From: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:31:56 -0700 (PDT)

> > means sparc ends up allocating 38 * sizeof(u32) * sizeof(u32), and
> > sparc64 ends up with 36 * sizeof(u64) * sizeof(u64), which must surely
> > be wrong?
> 
> Yup!  Sure looks like Dave skipped the step where it says "test that core
> dumps work ... and produce correct results". :-)

It was allocating too much memory, which is harmless.

So it did work, and I did test it.
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