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

Martin J. Bligh (fletch@aracnet.com)
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:50:05 -0700


> 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

Humpf. You mean I've got to get rid of my disgusting hack? Sigh ... OK. ;-)

FWIW, I still think that means that the console locking changes are broken
-
adding a printk shouldn't panic the kernel. I'll go look at the console
locking
changes (*and* fix my disgusting hack ;-) )

M.

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