On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Because the SPU coredump code might be built as part of a module (spufs), > we have a stub which is called by the coredump code, this routine then calls > into spufs if it's loaded. > > Unfortunately the stub returns -ENOSYS if spufs is not loaded, which is > interpreted by the coredump code as an extra note size of -38 bytes. This > leads to a corrupt core dump. > > If spufs is not loaded there will be no SPU ELF notes to write, and so the > extra notes size will be == 0. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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