From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:38:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ia64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP Message-Id: <20061220013819.f6413c03.akpm@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <200612192104.kBJL4gfn010370@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <200612192104.kBJL4gfn010370@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 20 Dec 2006 04:27:11 -0500 Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>> "Andrew" = akpm writes: > > Andrew> From: Andrew Morton Some trivial bugs are > Andrew> coming from ia64 developers. Try to help them. > > Ugh! > > Please don't do this in the sn2 defconfig! Spin lock debugging totally > kills scalability. I'll end up with a ton of internal complaints over > the kernel not performing if this goes in :-( Well you tell me how to stop ia64 developers from submitting stuff which has stupid bugs which instamanifest for everyone else? It is not uncommon.