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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Larry Stefani <lstefani@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: SB1250 locking up in init on current 2.6.16 kernel
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:43:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328134317.GA21099@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <926775.30590.qm@web38810.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Larry Stefani wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> I used git bisect and narrowed the lockup to the
> "[MIPS] Retire flush_icache_page from mm use." patch
> (see git results below).  This is consistent with my
> earlier testing and what Thiemo reported March 3 on
> the linux.debian.kernel list.  I tried his patch (mark
> pages tainted by PIO IDE as dirty) on 2.6.16.60, but
> it didn't prevent the lockup.

ISTR I got 2.6.16.60 to work by always enabling the cache flush in
ide.h (it is currently only run to clean out aliases). Keep in mind
that this is a crude workaround on top of other cache code hacks for
the SB-1.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-24 14:00 SB1250 locking up in init on current 2.6.16 kernel Larry Stefani
2008-03-24 20:33 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-03-25 13:05   ` Larry Stefani
2008-03-26 20:52   ` Larry Stefani
2008-03-28 13:43     ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2008-03-28 16:38       ` Larry Stefani
2008-03-28 17:11         ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-03-31  2:02           ` Larry Stefani
2008-03-25 15:37 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-03-25 17:12 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-03-25 17:12   ` Thiemo Seufer

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