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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:01:08AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > The SLQB allocator is known to be broken on certain PowerPC and S390
> > > configurations. Disable the allocator in Kconfig for those architectures
> > > until the issues are resolved.

Looks ok to me. I'll debug s390 when time permits.

> > > init/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > > index c0d8a47..aaeddeb 100644
> > > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > > @@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ config SLUB
> > >
> > > config SLQB
> > > bool "SLQB (Queued allocator)"
> > > + depends on !PPC && !S390
> > > help
> > > SLQB is a proposed new slab allocator.
> > >
>
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 23:55 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > I think this should be (!PPC && !S390) || EXPERIMENTAL so that it can
> > still be enabled for debugging and development.
>
> Everybody enables EXPERIMENTAL so that seems pointless. Developers can
> hack Kconfig locally, no?

Exactly.


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