From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] latest MCA logging patch
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:19:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805806@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805745@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:16:33 -0800, "Hall, Jenna S" <jenna.s.hall@intel.com> said:
Jenna> OK I've made the local_irq_save() change and here is the new
Jenna> patch. As per the latest (July 2001) SAL spec, all SAL calls
Jenna> used in the Linux kernel are re-entrant, except some called
Jenna> by the bootstrap processor during boot time. See table 9-2.
My understanding is that there is firmware out there that's not fully
re-entrant. As long as this is the case, I don't believe this change
is safe.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-05 2:48 [Linux-ia64] latest MCA logging patch Hall, Jenna S
2002-01-10 19:07 ` David Mosberger
2002-01-11 0:16 ` Hall, Jenna S
2002-01-11 0:19 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-01-11 21:25 ` Mallick, Asit K
2002-01-11 21:33 ` David Mosberger
2002-01-11 22:42 ` Jack Steiner
2002-01-15 22:35 ` Hall, Jenna S
2002-01-17 5:20 ` David Mosberger
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