Re: Race condition in module load causing undefined symbols

Steve Lord
2005-06-14T17:16:44Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org> writes:
>
>>So is this some P4 specific optimization which is not working as
>>intended?
>
>
> The only pentium specific optimizations that are enabled by MPENTIUM4
> is to tell the compiler to compile for pentium4 and a few settings
> in arch/i386/Kconfig.
>
> You could enable/disable these individually and see if you can track
> it down with a binary search.
>
> Most of this stuff should be fairly harmless though and be only
> microoptimizations; I cannot see how they should cause user visible
> races.
>
> -Andi
>

I see what you mean about there not being a lot of difference
between the two, however, the other difference between the builds
would be -mtune=pentium3 and -mtune=pentium4.

Steve