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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:46:26 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: mm->context[NR_CPUS] and pci fix check [was Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11]
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:14:44PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:19:44AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > I would instead suggest to declare 'context' to be of an arch-specific
> > defined type, much like "thread_struct" is.
> 
> I agree, [..]

Here it is:

	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.0-test12/alpha-ASN-SMP-races-2.4.x-2

This one breaks all archs but i386 and alpha. If some arch maintainer likes me
to update its arch blindly implementing mm_arch structure as an `unsigned long
context' and fixing up the miscompilation I will do.

Andrea
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