Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:58:01PM +0300, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:47:45PM +0300, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > > How about the following?
> > > 
> > > remove-lock_section-from-x86_64-spin_lock-asm.patch
> > >   remove LOCK_SECTION from x86_64 spin_lock asm
> > > 
> > > allow-x86_64-to-reenable-interrupts-on-contention.patch
> > >   Allow x86_64 to reenable interrupts on contention
> > > 
> > > The former is a fix.
> > 
> > What does it fix? 
> 
> Well we don't have lock section anymore since the spinlock text is all in 
> the out of line functions. So this was really something i missed in my 
> sweep.

I think the linker handles it anyways, so it's probably not critical
(without that it would slash'n'burn immediately)

-Andi
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