Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add slab_is_available() routine for boot code | Date | Thu, 11 May 2006 14:40:16 +0200 |
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On Thursday 11 May 2006 01:00, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:50:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Is this a needed-for-2.6.17 fix? > > I'll let Arnd answer. He ran into this when doing some Cell work. Not > sure where in the development cycle the code is that exposes this bug.
The code in 2.6.17 breaks when spufs is non-modular. Currently, this is a compile-time option so users can work around it by building spufs as a loadable module.
For 2.6.18, we want to make the part of spufs that calls this non-modular in order to avoid adding further EXPORT_SYMBOLs. I would much prefer to have the fix in 2.6.17 already, but we could alternatively force spufs to be a loadable module in 2.6.17 and change it later.
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