Re: 2.6.21-mm1

Christoph Lameter
2007-05-08T16:07:14Z

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> The SLUB code introduces the config segment below to stop SLUB being
> used on powerpc:
>
> config ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
> bool
> default y
> depends on SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS <= NR_CPUS
>
> However as far as I can kconfig has no support for operators other than
> ==, !=, &&, and ||. Who can say why we do not get an error.
>
> Cirtainly in my testing this simply never triggers and bad kernels result.
>
> Thoughts?

Get rid of the whole patch as soon as possible? It seems that PPC work is
in progress to make SLUB work in all configurations.