[PATCH] Parse 64 bit VMCOREINFO on 32 bit userland

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Mon Dec 1 04:59:15 EST 2008


* Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-12-01 13:28]:
> 
> 'unsigned long' of PPC32 is 32 bit, so PPC32 makedumpfile cannot read
> 64 bit pointer. If they will be changed to 'unsigned long long'(64 bit),
> makedumpfile reads invalid area on 32 bit machine. Then this change is
> not acceptable.

Agreed. I think we need to ship 64 bit makedumpfile.


    Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development



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