[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] return only valid data in ibox_info and mbox_info

[John DelSignore]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When there is no data available in the outbound SPU mailboxes,
> reading the respective info files leaks kernel stack data instead
> of returning the mailbox contents. This changes the behavior of
> spufs to return no data at all in that case, which is what the only
> user (gdb) expects anyway.

Just for the record, gdb is not the only user of spufs. TotalView uses spufs too. So it's important that spufs is well documented and well behaved.

Cheers, John D.
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