Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:39:59 +0200 | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu call |
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> > 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.
> I was considering to xor it with a random value to bring the point across > more strongly, but then didn't do it. Do you think I should?
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