From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] size of spinlock_t
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:24:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905102@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905101@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:14:55 -0600, Ray Bryant <raybry@engr.sgi.com> said:
Ray> In experimenting with new numa lock implementation, I changed
Ray> the size of spinlock_t to 16 bytes. The resulting kernel hangs
Ray> on our SN hardware just after printing "All processors have
Ray> done init_idle". Now it is possible this is something peculiar
Ray> to the SGI kernels, but I was wondering if anyone knew of
Ray> places in the IA64 kernel that "know" that
Ray> sizeof(spinlock_t)=8 and don't work correctly if this is
Ray> changed.
Are you sure it's not just include/asm/offsets.h that's out of date?
Make sure you have no stray arch/ia64/tools/print_offsets.s file and
then rerun make dep.
--david
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2002-02-15 6:14 [Linux-ia64] size of spinlock_t Ray Bryant
2002-02-15 6:24 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-02-15 15:47 ` Ray Bryant
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