Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755291AbZIPIET (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:04:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755178AbZIPIER (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:04:17 -0400 Received: from mtagate2.de.ibm.com ([195.212.17.162]:52061 "EHLO mtagate2.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755253AbZIPIEO (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:04:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:04:04 +0200 From: Heiko Carstens To: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, npiggin@suse.de, sachinp@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390 Message-ID: <20090916080404.GC4870@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: <1253083059.5478.1.camel@penberg-laptop> <1253084468.6749.27.camel@penberg-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1253084468.6749.27.camel@penberg-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1331 Lines: 37 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:01:08AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > The SLQB allocator is known to be broken on certain PowerPC and S390 > > > configurations. Disable the allocator in Kconfig for those architectures > > > until the issues are resolved. Looks ok to me. I'll debug s390 when time permits. > > > init/Kconfig | 1 + > > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig > > > index c0d8a47..aaeddeb 100644 > > > --- a/init/Kconfig > > > +++ b/init/Kconfig > > > @@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ config SLUB > > > > > > config SLQB > > > bool "SLQB (Queued allocator)" > > > + depends on !PPC && !S390 > > > help > > > SLQB is a proposed new slab allocator. > > > > > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 23:55 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > > I think this should be (!PPC && !S390) || EXPERIMENTAL so that it can > > still be enabled for debugging and development. > > Everybody enables EXPERIMENTAL so that seems pointless. Developers can > hack Kconfig locally, no? Exactly. -- 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/