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From: "Rafał Bilski" <rafalbilski@interia.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (Longhaul 1/5) PCI: Protect bus master DMA from	Longhaul by rw semaphores
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:50:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A3CCB0.7080208@interia.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44A3C17F.3060204@etpmod.phys.tue.nl>

Bart Hartgers napisał(a):
> Alan Cox wrote:
>> Ar Mer, 2006-06-28 am 20:25 +0200, ysgrifennodd Rafał Bilski:
>>> AUTOHALT, this means interrupts must be disabled except for the time tick, 
>>> which should be reset to >=1ms. Care must be taken to avoid other system events 
>>> that could interfere with this operation. A few examples are snooping, NMI, 
>>> INIT, SMI and FLUSH."
>> "snooping". So we do need the cache sorting out.
>>
> 
> If I understand correctly, trouble occurs when the processor tries to
> snoop? Would disabling (via MSR) and flushing the caches before changing
> the frequency help in that case?
> 
> Groeten,
> Bart
> 

I will check that. If this was so simple all this time...
I hope this "few examples" aren't many more.

Rafał


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-29 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-28 18:25 [PATCH] (Longhaul 1/5) PCI: Protect bus master DMA from Longhaul by rw semaphores Rafał Bilski
2006-06-29 11:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 12:03   ` Bart Hartgers
2006-06-29 12:50     ` Rafał Bilski [this message]
2006-06-29 14:12     ` Rafał Bilski
2006-06-29 15:01       ` Bart Hartgers
2006-06-29 15:40         ` Rafał Bilski
2006-06-30 10:46           ` Bart Hartgers
2006-06-29 15:16       ` Bart Hartgers
2006-06-29 15:55         ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 18:54         ` Rafał Bilski
2006-06-29 15:52     ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <fa.lpmuYQxc6OV7Bh11JMM/FzqVWyY@ifi.uio.no>
2006-06-29 23:17 ` Robert Hancock
2006-07-01 18:02   ` Rafał Bilski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-28 13:56 Rafał Bilski
2006-06-28 17:34 ` Greg KH
2006-06-28 18:03   ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 18:00     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-06-28 18:10   ` Dave Jones

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