Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:46:03 +0100
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Koskinen Aaro (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v5 4/5]: core: Add dump device to call on oopses and panics
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On Mon, 30 November 2009 09:27:51 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> To me it looks like 'log_end' is not supposed to wrap. What makes you
> think it can? In which cases it can?

It is a 32bit variable.  Would do you expect happens once you reach
0xffffffff and add 1?

Jörn

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