[RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 02:37:47 EST


The SLQB allocator is known to be broken on certain PowerPC and S390
configurations. Disable the allocator in Kconfig for those architectures
until the issues are resolved.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sachin Sant <sachinp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
init/Kconfig | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c0d8a47..aaeddeb 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ config SLUB

config SLQB
bool "SLQB (Queued allocator)"
+ depends on !PPC && !S390
help
SLQB is a proposed new slab allocator.

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1.5.6.3



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