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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, blauwirbel@gmail.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	atar4qemu@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: Commit 085219f79cad broke Sparc-32 back in 2.6.28.
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:57:19 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100221.155719.226789440.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002211025.11588.rob@landley.net>

From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:25:09 -0600

> 085219f79cad89291699bd2bfb21c9fdabafe65f is first bad commit
> commit 085219f79cad89291699bd2bfb21c9fdabafe65f
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Date:   Fri Jan 2 18:47:34 2009 -0800
> 
>     sparc32: use proper types in struct stat
>     
>     Like sparc64 use proper types in struct stat
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> This commit breaks stat and makes sparc32 essentially unusable.  It changes 
> the size of the various types in stat.h, and means that if you "mount -t tmpfs 
> /tmp /tmp" and then try to ls /tmp, ls dies with a memory allocation error.
> 
> I've confirmed that reverting it fixes the problem.

Thanks for tracking this down Rob, I'll work on a fix and
push it around.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-21 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201002110520.07620.rob@landley.net>
     [not found] ` <f43fc5581002201359x50aff2b1ofc4f816762bda597@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <201002201712.23628.rob@landley.net>
2010-02-21 16:25     ` Commit 085219f79cad broke Sparc-32 back in 2.6.28 Rob Landley
2010-02-21 23:57       ` David Miller [this message]
2010-02-22  0:28         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2010-02-22  2:03           ` Rob Landley
2010-02-22  2:06       ` David Miller
2010-03-27  3:35         ` Rob Landley
2010-03-27  3:37           ` David Miller
2010-03-27  7:44             ` Rob Landley
2010-03-27 23:31               ` David Miller

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