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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ia64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:53:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061220015359.5fd56742.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612192104.kBJL4gfn010370@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:46:40 +0100
Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Beat them with a stick?

Make it a pointy stick and I can improve on that.

I've been thinking that we could do with a CONFIG_RC_KERNEL or something
which gets turned on up until -rc4 or so, then gets turned off.  So we can
make the devel kernels more debugging-friendly.

The main problem would be remembering to turn the dang thing off and on at
the right times.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-20  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-19 21:04 [patch 1/3] ia64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP akpm
2006-12-20  9:27 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-12-20  9:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-20  9:46 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-12-20  9:53 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-20  9:56 ` Jes Sorensen

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