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Date:      Wed, 03 Apr 2002 07:21:09 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please review: endian invariant kernel dump headers 
Message-ID:  <27395.1017811269@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:42:08 -0800." <20020403034208.GA929@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> 

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In message <20020403034208.GA929@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes
:
>Please review the attached patch. The change achieves the following:
>
>1. Dump the kernel header in dump byte order. This is the same
>   as network byte order. Parity calculation is endianness
>   invariant and should not use the macros.

good.

>2. The kernel dump header had a size of 520 bytes on 64-bit
>   architectures due to alignment of the uint64_t following
>   the uint32_t. Reordering solves that.

My fault, I thought I had that right.

>3. No version bump is required, because all existing headers are
>   in little-endian and thus will not have the same version as
>   the big-endian dumps. I did not add support in savecore to
>   read version 0x01000000 headers :-)

Cool.

Suggest you add:

CTASSERT(sizeof kerneldumpheader == 512);

while at it.

>If there are no blocking objections I like to commit this quickly
>due to point 2.

By all means.

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