Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751572AbZIQKIi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:08:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751353AbZIQKIh (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:08:37 -0400 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:37860 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751045AbZIQKIg (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:08:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:08:42 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Pekka Enberg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, 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: <20090917100841.GF13002@csn.ul.ie> References: <1253083059.5478.1.camel@penberg-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1253083059.5478.1.camel@penberg-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1742 Lines: 55 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:37:39AM +0300, 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. > Can the issues be summarised? The danger is if SLQB is being silently disabled, it'll never be noticed or debugged :/ > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: Christoph Lameter > Cc: Heiko Carstens > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Nick Piggin > Cc: Sachin Sant > Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg > --- > 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. > > -- > 1.5.6.3 > > > > -- > 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/ > -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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/