Re: Bug with shared memory.

[Mike Kravetz]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:53:10PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> 
> > It appears that this was done for 'sparc64', but no other architectures.
> > I would consider doing this for i386, if anyone would actually use it.
> > 
> > One would think these types of things are easily found, but this example
> > suggests otherwise.  Has anyone run the kernel through an extensive
> > (stress) test suite with any of the kernel debug options enabled?
> 
> Does this imply that the option:
>   CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
> doesn't work on x86? Or works poorly?

No I did not intend to imply this. AFAIK 'CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y'
works fine on x86 (although I'm not a user myself).  My intention
was only to add additional features to x86, that appear to only exist
for sparc64.

-- 
Mike