On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:31:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:22:55 -0400 Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > OK, here: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm3/broken-out/fix-x86_64-mm-sched-clock-share.patch
> > >
> > > So I guess what we want to do here is to revert that patch, test i386
> > > allnoconfig and then fix up anything which breaks.
> >
> > Nothing breaks for me with make ARCH=i386 bzImage on my x86-64 box
> > (which should be the same as a native build).
>
> Was that with allnoconfig?
yeah.
> > The functions that complain in that patch header don't seem to actually
> > exist in mainline at all. (`init_sched_clock' and `call_r_s_f')
> > Did this patch perhaps jump the gun, and these are -mm only ?
>
> Could be that this patch fixed version 17 of sched-clock-share and we ended
> up merging verion 56. It was awful.
heh.
I think just reverting that change for .23 makes sense. It doesn't
seem that anything breaks by not having it there, and we know it
definitly breaks arm at least.
Dave
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