Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation

[William Lee Irwin III]

Mikael writes:
>> Case in point: the perfctr kernel extension needs to communicate ...

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 09:03:14AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Nice example.  Thank-you.
> Yes - doing that 1-bit at a time in a per-cpu loop would be ugly.
> We should leave cpus_addr() around, at least until such time as the
> cpumask ADT provided routines to support exactly what you are doing -
> copying up masks to user space as length specified arrays of uint.

This is patently ridiculous. Make a compat_sched_getaffinity(), and
likewise for whatever else is copying unsigned long arrays to userspace.


-- wli
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