Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> yuck. What is the real problem btw?
Well. One problem is that spinlocks now take two words...
But apart from that, the problem at hand is that we want to embed a
spinlock in struct page, and the size of the spinlock varies a lot according
to config. The only >wordsize version we really care about is
CONFIG_PREEMPT, NR_CPUS >= 4. (which distros don't ship...)
> AFAICS there's enough space for a
> 2-word spinlock in struct page for pagetables.
spinlocks get a lot bigger than that with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK.
> We really dont want to
> rewrite spinlocks (or remove features) just to keep gcc 2.95 supported
> for some more time. In fact, is there any 2.6 based distro that uses gcc
> 2.95?
I think some of the debian derivates might. But who knows?
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