Re: [PATCH] [8/7] oprofile - dcookies need to use u32

From: Ulrich Weigand (weigand@immd1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 20:56:10 EST

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John Levon wrote:

+ return (u32)dentry;

Um, isn't this supposed to uniquely identify the dentry?
On a platform with 64-bit pointers there's now the theoretical
possibility of different dentries getting the same cookie ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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