From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:46:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:6670 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:46:27 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j81GqakJ017648; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:52:36 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j81GqZiN017647; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:52:35 +0100 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:52:35 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle DL5RB To: Bryan Althouse Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: custom ide driver causes "Badness in smp_call_function" Message-ID: <20050901165235.GI2876@linux-mips.org> References: <20050826141047.GA8777@linux-mips.org> <20050901161023Z8225398-3678+8096@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050901161023Z8225398-3678+8096@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8859 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:15:31PM -0400, Bryan Althouse wrote: > I've done more testing with your patch. When I use it with my non-SMP > kernel, disk access will cause a panic with a cache error message. Is this > patch only intended for SMP, or is this a legitimate problem? There is a real problem but it only hits on SMP. (The implementation is a hack though, it makes assumptions about the IDE code's internal workings) Ralf