From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: VM fixes [4/4]
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:22:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041224182219.GH13747@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041224100147.32ad4268.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:01:47AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:41:56 +0100
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > + * All archs should support atomic ops with
> > + * 1 byte granularity.
> > + */
> > + unsigned char memdie;
>
> Again, older Alpha's do not.
If those old cpus really supported smp in linux, then fixing this bit is
trivial, just change it to short. Do they support short at least?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-24 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-24 17:41 VM fixes [4/4] Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 18:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-24 18:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-12-24 20:55 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-24 21:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-24 23:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-24 23:55 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-24 23:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-25 2:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-25 3:24 ` VM fixes [PF_MEMDIE to TIF_MEMDIE] [5/4] Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-25 14:53 ` VM fixes [->used_math to PF_USED_MATH] [6/4] Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-27 7:03 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-01-02 15:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-08 17:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-25 0:06 ` VM fixes [4/4] Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-12-25 2:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-27 13:38 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-28 9:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-02 15:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-02 16:44 ` Rik van Riel
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