Re: [PATCH 01/15] mm: poison struct page for ptlock

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 16:52:55 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:37:19PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > 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...)
>
> Suse, Debian and Redhat ship such kernels.

No. SuSE and Redhat have always been smart enough to avoid CONFIG_PREEMPT
like the plague, and even Debian finally noticed this a few month ago.

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