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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, riel@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFT 4/5] CLOCK-Pro page replacement
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:27:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124436426.23757.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050819001030.52ec1364.akpm@osdl.org>

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 00:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > I believe we just ignored sparc64.  That usually works for solving these
> > kind of bugs. 8)
> 
> heh.  iirc, it was demonstrable on x86 also.

No.  gcc-2.95 on Sparc64 put uninititialized vars into the bss, ignoring
the __attribute__((section(".data.percpu"))) directive.  x86 certainly
doesn't have this, I just tested it w/2.95.

Really, it's Sparc64 + gcc-2.95.  Send an urgent telegram to the user
telling them to upgrade.

Rusty.
-- 
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-19  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-10 20:02 [PATCH/RFT 0/5] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:02 ` [PATCH/RFT 1/5] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:02 ` [PATCH/RFT 2/5] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:27   ` David S. Miller, Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:38     ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:02 ` [PATCH/RFT 3/5] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:02 ` [PATCH/RFT 4/5] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:31   ` David S. Miller, Rik van Riel
2005-08-18  0:38     ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18  2:48       ` David S. Miller, Andrew Morton
2005-08-18  4:05         ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18  4:48           ` David S. Miller, Andrew Morton
2005-08-19  7:03             ` Rusty Russell
2005-08-19  7:10               ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-19  7:27                 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2005-08-19 13:04                   ` Horst von Brand
2005-08-10 23:22   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-08-11  0:06     ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-10 20:02 ` [PATCH/RFT 5/5] " Rik van Riel
2005-08-11 22:08   ` Song Jiang
2005-08-12  1:22     ` Rik van Riel

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