Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 May 2002 13:07:07 -0700 | From | Mike Kravetz <> | Subject | Re: Bug with shared memory. |
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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:53:10PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > > It appears that this was done for 'sparc64', but no other architectures. > > I would consider doing this for i386, if anyone would actually use it. > > > > One would think these types of things are easily found, but this example > > suggests otherwise. Has anyone run the kernel through an extensive > > (stress) test suite with any of the kernel debug options enabled? > > Does this imply that the option: > CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y > doesn't work on x86? Or works poorly?
No I did not intend to imply this. AFAIK 'CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y' works fine on x86 (although I'm not a user myself). My intention was only to add additional features to x86, that appear to only exist for sparc64.
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