On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 02:55:39AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > That has not proven sufficient for me in the past, RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
> > being a case in point.
> 
> Taint the kernel at boot time? That'd be sufficient to force distros to 
> disable it.

Cool!  That does sound much more socially responsible than my thought
of forcing a splat (e.g., WARN_ON(1)) during boot.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul