kernel compilation fails

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Tue Sep 30 00:39:20 UTC 2003


On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:02:25PM -0700, Ben Hsu wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 10:12, Ben Hsu wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It looks like the problem is that in kernel.c the definition of
> > "active_load_balance" is surrounded by #if CONFIG_SHARE_RUNQUEUE, but
> > the actual call to that function on line 1712 is not in such an #if.
> > 
> I tracked down the problem that the definition of the
> active_load_rebalance on line 1321 is inside of an #ifdef CONFIG_SMP on
> 1087
> 
> I compiled with SMP enabled and it worked, is it safe for uniprocessor
> machines to run with SMP enabled?

Sometimes, even usually.  :-)  (If it boots, it should be OK; there are
some UP machines that won't boot the SMP kernel)

Just a trifle slower...

What's the bugzilla number for this one?

michaelkjohnson

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