Subject: Re: Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP?

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:29:13 +0100

On Mon, Jan 11, 1999, Ryan Nielsen <[email-masked]> 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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