On 01.09.2008 20:19, ron minnich wrote:
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
Sorry, I meant that
struct sys_info *sysinfox = ((CONFIG_LB_MEM_TOPK<<10) - DCACHE_RAM_GLOBAL_VAR_SIZE);
is broken beyond repair. Basically, that code tries to establish a new location for global variables without telling anyone.
yow! that's supposed to have been gone already! I wonder if a patch got lost.
Can you repost your remaining diff? I'll try to review ASAP.
We're going to write this code as always SMP safe, and I want to remove the CONFIG_*_SMP conditionals. They make no sense for a bios.
Interesting point of view. As long as we're allowed to make locking on pure uniprocessor architectures a no-op, I'm totally for it.
yeah, locks on up always succeed and there's no contention :-)
I had a redefinition of the lock functions in mind because some architectures may not have any fast/easy locking instructions.
Regards, Carl-Daniel