linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Ryan Nielsen <ran@krazynet.com>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:29:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990111172913.007726@mail.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990111042611.A152@gondolin>


On Mon, Jan 11, 1999, Ryan Nielsen <ran@krazynet.com> wrote:

>it is crashing in kswapd, not the ncr driver.
>
>I got pre6 to work by reverse-patching the kswapd part of mm/vmscan.c down to
>pre4
>this is only needed for SMP...

Linus posted some messages about this on the kernel ML, pre-7 should fix
all that mess, the memory trashing may finally work fine after all ;-)

-- 
           E-Mail: <mailto:bh40@calva.net>
BenH.      Web   : <http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/>





[[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]]
[[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to  Cc linuxppc-dev  if your ]]
[[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]]
[[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]

  reply	other threads:[~1999-01-11 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-07 18:55 Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP? Troy Benjegerdes
1999-01-11 12:26 ` Ryan Nielsen
1999-01-11 16:29   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
1999-01-12  2:43     ` Ryan Nielsen
1999-01-11 16:54   ` Troy Benjegerdes

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=19990111172913.007726@mail.mipsys.com \
    --to=bh40@calva.net \
    --cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org \
    --cc=ran@krazynet.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).