Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262244AbVATRDw (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:03:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262322AbVATQ7s (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:59:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:63964 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262251AbVATQ5M (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:57:12 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:57:02 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Chubb , Chris Wedgwood , Andrew Morton , paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, wli@holomorphy.com, jbarnes@sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] spinlock fix #1, *_can_lock() primitives Message-ID: <20050120165702.GA17182@elte.hu> References: <16878.9678.73202.771962@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> <20050119092013.GA2045@elte.hu> <16878.54402.344079.528038@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20050120023445.GA3475@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050119190104.71f0a76f.akpm@osdl.org> <20050120031854.GA8538@taniwha.stupidest.org> <16879.29449.734172.893834@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> <20050120160839.GA13067@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 18 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > I don't want to break all the other architectures. Or at least not > most of them. Especially since I was hoping to do a -pre2 soon (well, > like today, but I guess that's out..) and make the 2.6.11 cycle > shorter than 2.6.10. if we remove the debugging check from exit.c then the only thing that might break in an architecture is SMP+PREEMPT, which is rarely used outside of the x86-ish architectures. Ingo - 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/