From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Bryant Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:47:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] size of spinlock_t Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Yes that was it. Thanks. I am totally amazed that "make clean; make vmlinux" did not remake offsets.h. David Mosberger wrote: > > >>>>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:14:55 -0600, Ray Bryant 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 Are you sure it's not just include/asm/offsets.h that's out of date?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 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 -- Best Regards, Ray ----------------------------------------------- Ray Bryant SGI 512-453-9679 (work) 512-507-7807 (cell) raybry@sgi.com raybry@austin.rr.com Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. -----------------------------------------------