On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 09:10:54AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 12:53:33AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > This is NetBSD 9.2_STABLE on amd64. If the kernel is built with
> > profiling (either config -p, or makeoptions PROF="-pg" and options
> > GPROF), it crashes at boot with this panic:
> >
> > panic: patchfunc: sizes do not match (from=0xffffffff80f0d720)
>
> Here is a workaround, but perhaps the concept of patching the
> binary is to be questioned. Is it just to save the performance
> of a boolean test?
I think it's more than this; it's to use the right instruction on the
right CPU. But I don't remember the details
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Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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