Daniel Carosone wrote:

>The SMP-xor-SA thing is immensely annoying, and really does need
>to be fixed, even if it's hard.  I consider it a security issue
>that the sa calls can be used to crash the machine; if no other
>workaround or processor-affinity hack is achievable those calls
>should be made to fail on a multiprocessor.
>
The fact that SA broke SMP should have delayed the commit of SA until
it was fixed, IMO.  Never before has the commit of a major subsystem
been allowed to totally break another feature.

    -- Lennart