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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	suparna@in.ibm.com, daniel@osdl.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pbadari@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIOtestingon2.6.0-test7-mm1)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:08:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031026120808.D25595@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031026115719.GA10333@fs.tum.de>; from bunk@fs.tum.de on Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:57:19PM +0100

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:57:19PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:46:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >...
> > > -Os has it's benefits on some systems, so it shouldn't be totally hidden 
> > > under EMBEDDED. OTOH, it's less tested, so only people who know what 
> > > they are doing should use it (EXPERIMENTAL plus help text).
> > 
> > It causes kernels to crash on a major linux distribution.  We need to
> > either make it very hard to turn on, or just forget it altogether.
> 
> The -Os patch with a dependency on EMBEDDED is below.
> 
> diffstat output:
> 
>  arch/arm/Makefile   |    2 --
>  arch/h8300/Kconfig  |    4 ++++
>  arch/h8300/Makefile |    2 +-
>  Makefile            |    8 +++++++-
>  init/Kconfig        |   10 ++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

So now ARM goes back to not building with -Os.

Maybe the right answer is to completely forget about making this a
configuration-time option for 2.6?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-26 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-17 23:12 AIO and DIO testing on 2.6.0-test7-mm1 Daniel McNeil
2003-10-18  0:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-20 14:27 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-20 23:47   ` Daniel McNeil
2003-10-21 12:11     ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testing on 2.6.0-test7-mm1) Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-23  0:40       ` Daniel McNeil
2003-10-23 10:49         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-23 13:50           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-23 22:59             ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-23 23:20               ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testing on2.6.0-test7-mm1) Adrian Bunk
2003-10-23 23:25                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-23 23:37                   ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testingon2.6.0-test7-mm1) Adrian Bunk
2003-10-23 23:46                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-24  0:34                       ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIOtestingon2.6.0-test7-mm1) Adrian Bunk
2003-10-26 11:57                       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-10-26 12:08                         ` Russell King [this message]
2003-10-26 12:17                           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-10-26 13:00                             ` Russell King
2003-10-23 23:22               ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testing on 2.6.0-test7-mm1) Dan Kegel

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