Re: Bug#44654: dpkg: seg faults w/2.3.17; problem traced to sysinfo()

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 02:35:23 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>be 20- on x86.

I suggest also to put back the comment about the 64byte alignment.

--- 2.3.17/include/linux/kernel.h Wed Sep 8 18:18:56 1999
+++ kernel.h Fri Sep 10 02:32:45 1999
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@
unsigned short procs; /* Number of current processes */
unsigned long totalbig; /* Total big memory size */
unsigned long freebig; /* Available big memory size */
- char _f[22-2*sizeof(long)]; /* Padding: libc5 uses this.. */
+ char _f[12]; /* Pads structure to 64 bytes
+ (libc5 uses this..) */
};

#endif

Andrea

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