From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:40:41 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Tom Gall Cc: Tony Mantler , Kaoru Fukui , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Success kernel-243pre8-SMP(patch)(Re: spin_lock problem inrecent kernel Message-ID: <20010330144041.A23536@suse.de> References: <20010329021803.Postino-029218@smtp01.highway.ne.jp> <3AC2352D.384B57CA@rochcivictheatre.org> <20010329222953.Postino-006016@smtp01.highway.ne.jp> <3AC33CA7.E5DF4C03@vnet.ibm.com> <20010330062000.Postino-000633@smtp01.highway.ne.jp> <3AC3F85F.88D020BE@rochcivictheatre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3AC3F85F.88D020BE@rochcivictheatre.org>; from gall@rochcivictheatre.org on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:07:11PM -0600 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Mar 29, Tom Gall wrote: > > Tony Mantler wrote: > > > That's #if*n*def, not #ifdef. :) > > > > And speaking of #ifndef, why are these spinlocks here in the first place > > and/or why do they now need to be removed? Just suddenly removing locks > > because of a new deadlock condition gets my spidey senses tingling. > > It all stinks to high heaven, that's for sure. Removing the > page_table_lock from being locked in ioremap, saves us from stopping > cold during the first ioremap (at least on Power3). And as far as the > second, I'm in complete agreement... warning warning danger will > robinson! That patch solved the boot problem on my 43p 260. Last progress output was MMU:exit. It boots and runs fine now. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/