Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:48:56 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: sunrpc woes with tux2 in 2.4.15-pre8,9 |
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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Something is indeed very wrong. Your setup uses a PIII, and no SMP. It > shouldn't be requiring atomic_dec_and_lock() at all. Certainly this is > the case on my own setup on stock 2.4.15-pre9. > > Could you check that the TUX patch isn't squashing the #define and > test for ATOMIC_DEC_AND_LOCK that is contained in > include/linux/spinlock.h in the stock Linus kernel. The latter is a > workaround that is designed to stop MODVERSIONS from interfering with > the re-#definition of atomic_dec_and_lock() in spinlock.h.
Yes, it looks like he's doing just that -
I built it with smp enabled and the problem goes away, so it's an implicit assumption of smp in the current tux code.
cu
jjs
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