Re: 7.52 second kernel compile

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Mon Mar 18, 2002 at 06:08:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> >    
> >    Or maybe the program is just flawed, and the interesting 1/8 pattern comes 
> >    from something else altogether.
> > 
> > I think the weird Athlon behavior has to do with the fact that
> > you've made your little test program as much of a cache tester
> > as a TLB tester :-)
> 
> Oh, I was assuming that malloc(BIG) would do a mmap() of MAP_ANONYMOUS, 

Perhaps adding an explicit 

    void *malloc(size_t size)
    {
	void *result = mmap((void *) 0, size + sizeof(size_t), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
		MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
	if (result == MAP_FAILED)
	    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	* (size_t *) result = size;
	return(result + sizeof(size_t));
    }

would ensure libc isn't trying to do something sneaky,

 -Erik

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