From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] i386: early pagefault handler
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:26:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AC0460.9060607@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152124139.6533.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-07-05 am 09:54 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds:
>> Anybody with that old a CPU will have learnt to to say "no-hlt" or
>> whatever the kernel command line is, and we could probably retire the
>> silly old hlt check (which I'm not even sure really ever worked).
>
> The one specific case I know precisely details of was the Cyrix 5510. A
> hlt by the CPU on that chipset during an IDE DMA transfer hangs the
> system forever.
>
> Its some years since I've even seen a 5510 and that check could be
> automated anyway
I think HLT for a die loop should be safe :)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 11:44 [patch] i386: early pagefault handler Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-05 11:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-05 13:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-05 16:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-05 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-05 18:28 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-05 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-05 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-05 20:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-07 2:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-07-07 2:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
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