Re: 2.6.0-test11-wli-1

[Hugang]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:01:20 -0800
William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Successfully tested on a Thinkpad T21. Any feedback regarding
> performance would be very helpful. Desktop users should notice top(1)
> is faster, kernel hackers that kernel compiles are faster, and highmem
> users should see much less per-process lowmem overhead.

I got this in ppc.
fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_task_readdir':
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x2ff44): undefined reference to `__cmpdi2'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x2ff44): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 __cmpdi2
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x2ff6c): undefined reference to `__cmpdi2'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x2ff6c): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 __cmpdi2
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

apply the patch should fix it.

Index: fs/proc/base.c
===================================================================
--- fs/proc/base.c	(revision 3)
+++ fs/proc/base.c	(working copy)
@@ -1673,12 +1673,13 @@
 	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	int retval = -ENOENT;
 	ino_t ino;
+	unsigned long pos = filp->f_pos;  /* avoiding "long long" filp->f_pos */
 
 	if (!pid_alive(proc_task(inode)))
 		goto out;
 	retval = 0;
 
-	switch (filp->f_pos) {
+	switch (pos) {
 	case 0:
 		ino = inode->i_ino;
 		if (filldir(dirent, ".", 1, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) < 0)


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