Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755414AbXEHQHO (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 12:07:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968111AbXEHQHJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 12:07:09 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:47695 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934833AbXEHQHE (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 12:07:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:07:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andy Whitcroft cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-mm1 In-Reply-To: <46407554.10801@shadowen.org> Message-ID: References: <20070505014955.8f3990b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46407554.10801@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 25 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. - 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/