Re: alpha spinlock.h update

Jeff Garzik
2005-03-23T16:32:20Z

Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:01:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>I had the impression Richard planned on something more sophisticated
>>than this??
>
>
> Indeed. I suppose I can pass it along to avoid repeated "it doesn't build"
> messages, but an smp kernel doesn't run. *All* processes spawned by init(1)
> die with SIGILL very very shortly. I can only guess that there's been some
> change to flushing (icache or tlb) that went wrong.

I wonder if its 4-level page tables. I think DaveM, in another thread,
is chasing flush-<something> issues right now, on sparc64.

Jeff