From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hme hang in SMP (was: 2.6.6 SMP on UE2 hangs consistently)
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:44:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040531124458.35a92ad1.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0405280942530.12976-100000@math.ut.ee>
On Mon, 31 May 2004 22:29:33 +0300 (EEST)
Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> wrote:
> Why is prom console deadlock prone?
Because it is the only facility in the kernel that causes
frequent calls into the OBP firmware, which requires full
cpu register state save on entry and exit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-31 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-28 8:07 hme hang in SMP (was: 2.6.6 SMP on UE2 hangs consistently) Meelis Roos
2004-05-28 11:43 ` Ben Collins
2004-05-29 18:55 ` Meelis Roos
2004-05-31 2:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-05-31 2:36 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-31 9:41 ` Meelis Roos
2004-05-31 10:18 ` Meelis Roos
2004-05-31 19:26 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-31 19:29 ` Meelis Roos
2004-05-31 19:44 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-06-01 8:49 ` Meelis Roos
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