Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269042AbUJKQGG (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:06:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269078AbUJKQCo (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:02:44 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44990 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269073AbUJKQBG (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:01:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:01:05 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 Message-ID: <20041011160105.GE26350@wotan.suse.de> References: <20041011032502.299dc88d.akpm@osdl.org> <20041011154934.GD26350@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1050 Lines: 29 On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:58:01PM +0300, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:47:45PM +0300, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > How about the following? > > > > > > remove-lock_section-from-x86_64-spin_lock-asm.patch > > > remove LOCK_SECTION from x86_64 spin_lock asm > > > > > > allow-x86_64-to-reenable-interrupts-on-contention.patch > > > Allow x86_64 to reenable interrupts on contention > > > > > > The former is a fix. > > > > What does it fix? > > Well we don't have lock section anymore since the spinlock text is all in > the out of line functions. So this was really something i missed in my > sweep. I think the linker handles it anyways, so it's probably not critical (without that it would slash'n'burn immediately) -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/