From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:03:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20070831080351.GD9260@stusta.de> References: <46D5902C.1040905@googlemail.com> <46D5B544.4030708@l4x.org> <20070829234734.GA26410@stusta.de> <46D66D49.20300@l4x.org> <46D7108D.9090104@l4x.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Dittmer , Michal Piotrowski , Linus Torvalds , LKML , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:48:45AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Here is the fix for alpha: > > >From clameter@sgi.com Thu Aug 30 14:13:57 2007 > Subject: SLUB: Force inlining for functions in slub_def.h > > Some compilers (especially older gcc releases) may skip inlining sometimes > which will lead to link failures. Force the inlining of keyfunctions in > slub_def.h to avoid these issues. >... This also explains why it's an Alpha-only problem - the Alpha port pretty much diverges from the rest of the kernel regarding "inline" semantics and usage... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed