From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andrea@persephoneslair.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race in arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:33:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081019.233321.69192797.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081018000635.GA16445@charon.persephoneslair.org>
From: Andrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:06:35 -0700
> Make arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S in 2.6.27.1 lock prom_entry_lock
> when calling the PROM. This prevents a race condition that I observed
> causing a hang on startup on a 12-CPU E4500.
>
> I am not subscribed to this list, so please CC me on replies.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org>
Applied, thanks a lot Andrea.
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2008-10-18 0:06 Andrea Shepard
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