Re: [PATCH] solves freeze due to serial comm. on SMP
Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Wed, 02 Jan 2002 21:46:06 -0800
kees wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In the beginning of last year I reported a solid freeze problem with Linux
> when I moved from UP to SMP. Some bughunting especially with kdb an hints
> from AM I was able to nail it down to some SMP unsafe irq table handling
> in serial.c.
> I submitted the attached patch to Ted but that never made it to the
> kernel. It _really_ solved the problem as I had a crash sometimes within
> 15 minutes and after applying it I reached uptimes over 100 days.
>
It looks like somebody has already had a go at fixing this in current
kernels - the restore_flags() has been moved to the end of
shutdown(). (It's not a complete fix, because request_irq() can
schedule).
Are you able to test 2.4.17?
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