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

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:12:13 -0700 (PDT)


From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 02:16:23 +0100

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:55:15PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> True.
>
> What if you could query the cookie size at runtime?

Not sure what you mean here. The cookie is passed in the syscall, so has
to be fixed-size no matter what, right ?

Right, but you could zero-extend that from u32 if u32
were the size appropriate for the current kernel.

I'm trying to decrease the size of your logfile.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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