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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:53:56 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix performance monitor exception in 2.6.20-series
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David Woodhouse writes:

> If we can _make_ it safe, and in doing so avoid the failure mode where
> the machine locks up with interrupts disabled and then the PMU resets
> itself entirely (including the date), that might be a good thing...

Different PMU, I think; they are talking about the Performance Monitor
Unit in POWERx cpus.

Paul.