From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: jamesclv@us.ibm.com, zwane@linuxpower.ca
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19-rc3-ac2 SMP
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:28:23 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207241728.TAA28800@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:26:49 +0200 (SAST), Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>i'd vote for that =) except for one thing.
>
>+ /* APICs tend to spasm when they get errors. Disable the error intr. */
>+ apic_write_around(APIC_LVTERR, ERROR_APIC_VECTOR | APIC_LVT_MASKED);
>
>Isn't that a bit drastic?
Drastic is an understatement. Try "gross". Sane machines running correct
code shouldn't throw local APIC errors. If something's causing errors,
that something should be fixed, not hidden.
I hope that was just a temporary debug hack and not part of the design...
/Mikael
next reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 17:28 Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2002-07-25 20:48 ` 2.4.19-rc3-ac2 SMP James Cleverdon
2002-07-26 10:31 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-23 4:21 Summit patch for 2.4.19-rc3-ac2 James Cleverdon
2002-07-23 12:03 ` 2.4.19-rc3-ac2 SMP Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-23 12:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-23 18:50 ` James Cleverdon
2002-07-24 15:26 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-24 22:50 ` James Cleverdon
2002-07-25 3:34 ` James Cleverdon
2002-07-25 7:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-25 20:29 ` James Cleverdon
2002-07-25 13:26 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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