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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jsun@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make ps2 mouse work ...
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:56:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615205611.1e9cbfcc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040615191023.G28403@mvista.com>

Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> 
> I found this problem on a MIPS machine.  The problem is 
> likely to happen on other register-rich RISC arches too.
> 
> cmdcnt needs to be volatile since it is modified by
> irq routine and read by normal process context.

volatile is not the preferred way to fix this up.  This points at either a
locking error in the psmouse driver or a missing "memory" thingy in the
mips port somewhere.

Please describe the bug which led to this patch.  Where was it getting stuck?

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make ps2 mouse work ...
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:56:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615205611.1e9cbfcc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20040616035611.WzIaBhyAy09SljcTWxBy2WdTZG4eQI1vKA0iW49I74M@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040615191023.G28403@mvista.com>

Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> 
> I found this problem on a MIPS machine.  The problem is 
> likely to happen on other register-rich RISC arches too.
> 
> cmdcnt needs to be volatile since it is modified by
> irq routine and read by normal process context.

volatile is not the preferred way to fix this up.  This points at either a
locking error in the psmouse driver or a missing "memory" thingy in the
mips port somewhere.

Please describe the bug which led to this patch.  Where was it getting stuck?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-16  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-16  2:10 [PATCH] make ps2 mouse work Jun Sun
2004-06-16  3:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-16  3:56   ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-16 12:11   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-16 17:04     ` Jun Sun
2004-06-16 17:58       ` Vojtech Pavlik

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