Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:10:43 -0400 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: smaller kernel with no real time futexes |
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:24:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Adrian, > > You said earlier you're looking at smaller allnoconfig kernels. > One thing I noticed recently that realtime pi futexes are always > enabled and that pulls in a lot of other code (like the plists) > > Userland needs to handle them not being available anyways for older > kernels. > > Might be worth looking into turning that into a CONFIG.
That's a very bad idea. glibc configured for 2.6.18 and higher kernels assumes PI futexes are present.
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