Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 12:15:59 EST


On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Russell King wrote:

> ARM doesn't have cmpxchg nor does it have hardware access nor dirty
> bits. They're simulated in software.

Even the cmpxchg is simulated.

> What's the problem you're trying to solve?

A hang when starting X on ARM with rc4-mm1 which contains the page fault
patches. But I have no access to the platform.
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