Re: 2.6.21-mm1

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> The SLUB code introduces the config segment below to stop SLUB being
> used on powerpc:
> 
>     config ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
>        bool
>        default y
>        depends on SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS <= NR_CPUS
> 
> However as far as I can kconfig has no support for operators other than
> ==, !=, &&, and ||.  Who can say why we do not get an error.
> 
> Cirtainly in my testing this simply never triggers and bad kernels result.
> 
> Thoughts?

Get rid of the whole patch as soon as possible? It seems that PPC work is 
in progress to make SLUB work in all configurations.

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