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Re: [PATCH] Fix 'info os' crashes on sparc.

From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, stan at codesourcery dot com, kcy at codesourcery dot com
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:44:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'info os' crashes on sparc.
References: <20121120.003006.1287326526424655175.davem@davemloft.net> <20121120.011339.2105774812993461488.davem@davemloft.net>

On 11/20/2012 06:13 AM, David Miller wrote:

> The thing is, this code still has a problem.  The number of cpus
> active doesn't tell us anything about what the largest cpu number
> might be.
> 
> The cpus numbers themselves can be arbitrarily sparse and beyond the
> number of cpus.
> 
> And it's the cpu numbers that are used to index these various tables.
> 

Indeed.

> gdb/
> 
> 2012-11-19  David S. Miller  <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> 	* common/linux-osdata.c (get_number_of_cpu_cores): Delete.
> 	(linux_xfer_osdata_processes): Fetch _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN via
> 	sysconf.
> 	(get_cores_used_by_process): Update comment.

OK.  Thanks.

-- 
Pedro Alves

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