From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200508191304.j7JD4utA010195@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFT 4/5] CLOCK-Pro page replacement In-Reply-To: Message from Rusty Russell of "Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:27:06 +1000." <1124436426.23757.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:04:56 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rusty Russell Cc: Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, riel@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Rusty Russell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 00:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Rusty Russell 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. I recently asked if gcc-2.95 was really still supported, and was told that it is in common use for its speed... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org