Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 Fast Walk Dcache (improved)

[Hanna V Linder]

--On Friday, March 08, 2002 6:59 PM -0800 Paul Menage <[e-mail]> wrote:

>> I've reworked the patch somewhat to give the following features:
>>
>
> Oops - that was a slightly non-functional version of the patch, as
> exec_permission_lite() had somehow got renamed to exec_permission().
>
> Here's the correct one.
>
> diff -daur linux-2.5.6/fs/dcache.c linux-2.5.6.dcache/fs/dcache.c

Hi Paul,

	There seems to be a problem while booting with this patch applied
on an 8-way SMP (.config available). Here is where the boot process stops:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
INIT: version 2.78 booting
                        Welcome to Red Hat Linux
                Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Mounting proc filesystem:  [  OK  ]
Configuring kernel parameters:  [  OK  ]
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.5.6/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Setting clock  (localtime): Sun Mar 10 11:10:27 PST 2002 [  OK  ]
Loading default keymap (us): [  OK  ]

Hanna