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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: sync_tsc fix the race (so we can boot)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:44:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050729074419.GB3726@bragg.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1slxz1ssn.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:03:04PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I believe this patch suffers from apicid versus logical cpu number confusion.
> I copied the basic logic from smp_send_reschedule and I can't find where
> that translates from the logical cpuid to apicid.  So it isn't quite
> correct yet.  It should be close enough that it shouldn't be too hard
> to finish it up.
> 
> More bug fixes after I have slept but I figured I needed to get this
> one out for review.

Thanks looks good. This should fix the unexplained
hang for various people. Logical<->apicid  is actually ok, the low
level _mask function takes care of that (it differs depending on the 
APIC mode anyways) 

There are some style problems, but that can be fixed later.

How did you track that nasty it down? 

-Andi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-29  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-28  4:03 [PATCH] x86_64: sync_tsc fix the race (so we can boot) Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-28 16:22 ` yhlu
2005-07-28 17:10   ` [PATCH] x86_64 : prefetchw() can fall back to prefetch() if !3DNOW Eric Dumazet
2005-08-03 13:17     ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-28 17:35   ` [PATCH] x86_64: sync_tsc fix the race (so we can boot) yhlu
2005-07-29  3:08     ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-29 20:41       ` yhlu
2005-07-29 23:27         ` yhlu
2005-07-30  0:40         ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-30  0:52           ` yhlu
2005-07-30  1:45             ` yhlu
2005-07-29  7:44 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-07-29 15:52   ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-29 16:04   ` Eric W. Biederman

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