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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:52:59 -0400
From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
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To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Subject: Re: Errata 67/77 / walnut bugs (was: Re: Erratum 51 bugfix?)
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David Gibson wrote:

> I suspect #77 is the cause of the problems I'm seeing on the walnut
> now - it mostly works, but every so often a process will freeze up
> immune to signals.

Hmmm...We did tons of debugging on this one and pointed it out to
IBM a while back.  The ATOMIC_SYNC_FIX configuration option was the
solution to cure it.  As you can tell, it tries to address the
pipeline issues surrounding the stwcx.  I kind of hope it is the
problem, and a better silicon bug fix will solve it.


	-- Dan

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