Re: [PATCH] [8/7] oprofile - dcookies need to use u32

Ulrich Weigand (weigand@immd1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 03:56:10 +0200 (MET DST)

John Levon wrote:

+ return (u32)dentry;

Um, isn't this supposed to uniquely identify the dentry?
On a platform with 64-bit pointers there's now the theoretical
possibility of different dentries getting the same cookie ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  weigand@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
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