Re: Adding a printk in start_secondary breaks 2.4.10, not 2.4.9 ??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:29:23 +0100 (BST)


> undiagnosable BINT error - I have no idea why ... maybe
> the console_lock serialises some action of the procs?)

The console locking changes have I suspect broken your bandaid. I guess
this time you need to fix it properly. Garbled panics normally occur when
both cpus panic in parallel. That really wants some kind of timed spinlock
to try and dump them one after the other

Alan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/