Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt bh40 at calva.net
Tue Jan 12 03:29:13 EST 1999


On Mon, Jan 11, 1999, Ryan Nielsen <ran at krazynet.com> wrote:

>it is crashing in kswapd, not the ncr driver.
>
>I got pre6 to work by reverse-patching the kswapd part of mm/vmscan.c down to
>pre4
>this is only needed for SMP...

Linus posted some messages about this on the kernel ML, pre-7 should fix
all that mess, the memory trashing may finally work fine after all ;-)

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