Re: [PATCH] Fix 'info os' crashes on sparc.

Pedro Alves
2012-11-20T14:44:59Z

On 11/20/2012 06:13 AM, David Miller wrote:

> The thing is, this code still has a problem. The number of cpus
> active doesn't tell us anything about what the largest cpu number
> might be.
>
> The cpus numbers themselves can be arbitrarily sparse and beyond the
> number of cpus.
>
> And it's the cpu numbers that are used to index these various tables.
>

Indeed.

> gdb/
>
> 2012-11-19 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>
> * common/linux-osdata.c (get_number_of_cpu_cores): Delete.
> (linux_xfer_osdata_processes): Fetch _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN via
> sysconf.
> (get_cores_used_by_process): Update comment.

OK. Thanks.

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Pedro Alves