Re: Race condition in module load causing undefined symbols

From: Pozsár Balázs
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 15:58:29 EST


On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:56:22PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > So is this some P4 specific optimization which is not working as
> > intended?
>
> The only pentium specific optimizations that are enabled by MPENTIUM4
> is to tell the compiler to compile for pentium4 and a few settings
> in arch/i386/Kconfig.
>
> You could enable/disable these individually and see if you can track
> it down with a binary search.
>
> Most of this stuff should be fairly harmless though and be only
> microoptimizations; I cannot see how they should cause user visible
> races.

I am 100% sure this is not a P4 optimization problem since I compiled my
kernel for i586 and saw the same problem.


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pozsy
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