From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Bob Miller <rem@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.3 remove global semaphore_lock spin lock.
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:05:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C5B0312.40DB82AB@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020131150139.A1345@doc.pdx.osdl.net> <3C59D956.4F2B85DB@zip.com.au>, <3C59D956.4F2B85DB@zip.com.au> <20020201125234.A1418@doc.pdx.osdl.net>
Bob Miller wrote:
>
> Also, at your suggestion I set wait.h:USE_RW_WAIT_QUEUE_SPINLOCK on
> a clean 2.5.3 system to test. The problem is that it OOPs on startup.
OK, someone broke it; possibly the scheduler changes. Not surprising,
really.
It'd be nice to have it fixed, but I wouldn't suggest that you
bust a gut over it. Certainly your patch shouldn't be held up by
this. An oops trace would be useful.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-01 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-31 23:01 [PATCH] 2.5.3 remove global semaphore_lock spin lock Bob Miller
2002-01-31 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-01 3:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 15:58 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-01 20:52 ` Bob Miller
2002-02-01 21:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-01 22:45 ` Bob Miller
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