Re: [PATCH/RFT 4/5] CLOCK-Pro page replacement

[Andrew Morton]

Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:48 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:05:32 -0700
> > 
> > > Perhaps by uprevving the compiler version?
> > 
> > Can't be, we definitely support gcc-2.95 and that compiler
> > definitely has the bug on sparc64.
> 
> I believe we just ignored sparc64.  That usually works for solving these
> kind of bugs. 8)

heh.  iirc, it was demonstrable on x86 also.

Dunno, it beats me.  But it is the case that we now have lots of
uninitialised DEFINE_PER_CPUs and nobody's crashing.  hm..
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