On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 04:51:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ok I'm going for stabilising the oddments 2.2.16 got a bit wrong before
> we move onwards. This even though a pre patch should be somewhat more
> solid than 2.2.16. It contains just the important bug fixes
>
As we discussed last week or so, struct sysinfo can overflow unsigned longs
under 2.2.x (you mentioned mounting multple 2GiB swap files as an example).
Is this something worth fixing in 2.2.x?
A nice fix would be to include the new 2.4.x sysinfo struct into 2.2.x, set
sysinfo.mem_unit=1 (to retain binary compatability), and then ensure that
sysinfo.totalram and friends never overflow (by checking places that can change
the totalram values such as linux/mm/swapfile.c and linux/arch/*/mm/init.c).
Would you accept such a fix if I code it up? This would obviate the need for a
sysinfo64 for old and new kernel binary compatability...
-Erik
--
Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.xmission.com/~andersen/
email: andersee@debian.org
--This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 23 2000 - 21:00:15 EST