Re: SMP lockup with 2.4.12 on VIA chipset (still does it)

Sam Varshavchik (mrsam@courier-mta.com)
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:05:22 -0400 (EDT)


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On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, PinkFreud wrote:

> Please note that this lockup does *NOT* happen with 2.2.19 with SMP, nor
> does it happen with 2.4.x WITHOUT SMP. Therefore, I would think
> whatever's causing this has to do with something that changed in SMP
> between 2.2.x and 2.4.x. Please feel free to yell at me if I should post
> this elsewhere.

Try the following patch, and see if it works. It fixes one potential
source of SMP hard lockups for 2.4.7+. I'm not sure if its fixed yet in
2.4.12.

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Sam

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