Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu call | Date | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:43:39 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 27 September 2006 14:39, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > > So this means that the contents of getcpu_cache will look completely > > > different if a process runs in 32bit mode or 64bit mode. Even if you're > > > saying "user programs should not..." this looks odd to me. > > > Is this really on purpose and do you really think that no user space > > > application will ever rely on the format of getcpu_cache? > > > > The vsyscalls do, but if anything else does it deserves breaking. > > In the user headers it will also be just a array blob. > > Ah, ok. The blob thing is the part I missed then.
Hmm, perhaps it's better to do that in the standard kernel headers.
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