RHEL added this unused field by an unknown reason, apparently
brainlessy porting some patch from mainstream.
It looks just as waste of memory, but it is worse, as tools
like drgn interpret its presence as indicator that kernel
works according to rules of that mainstream kernel where that
patch was
Alexey,
looks like you forgot to attach the patch.
Thank you,
Vasily Averin
On 6/12/24 21:32, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
> RHEL added this unused field by an unknown reason, apparently
> brainlessy backporting some patch from mainstream.
>
> It looks just as harmless waste of memory, but it
RHEL added this unused field by an unknown reason, apparently
brainlessy backporting some patch from mainstream.
It looks just as harmless waste of memory, but it is worse,
as tools like drgn interpret its presence as indicator that kernel
works according to rules of that mainstream kernel that
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