Re: alpha spinlock.h update

[Jeff Garzik]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:01:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > I had the impression Richard planned on something more sophisticated
> > than this??
>
>
> Indeed.  I suppose I can pass it along to avoid repeated "it doesn't build"
> messages, but an smp kernel doesn't run.  *All* processes spawned by init(1)
> die with SIGILL very very shortly.  I can only guess that there's been some
> change to flushing (icache or tlb) that went wrong.

I wonder if its 4-level page tables.   I think DaveM, in another thread, 
is chasing flush-<something> issues right now, on sparc64.

	Jeff


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