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From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@garzik.org>,
	"Ayaz Abdulla" <aabdulla@nvidia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: regression caused by: genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irq
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:23:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440804150123u5ddc4449sfa97538fe3970149@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080415081744.GB19452@elte.hu>

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>  * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > >  Do we think it's a bug in the RHEL 5.1 kernel?  Even so, that's a
>  > >  problem for the 2.6.25 kernel.
>  >
>  > it is RHEL 5.1 kernel problem, it has code for maskbit with msi there,
>  > but that does work...
typo: should be "that does *not* work"
>
>  addendum - basically the argument is: we should kexec conservatively -
>  i.e. we should leave as few assumptions and hw changes around as
>  possible. So restoring the MSI state is fair enough as a robustness fix,
>  even though only kexec to older kernels is affected.

i keep using kexec back and forth to avoid BIOS post stage.

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-11  6:13 regression caused by: genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irq Yinghai Lu
2008-04-11  7:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-11  7:14   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-11  7:17     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-11  7:30       ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-11  8:40         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-11 15:59           ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-11 10:31         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-11 15:19           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-11 16:23             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-11 18:22         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-11 19:48           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15  7:44             ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15  8:03               ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15  8:17                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15  8:23                   ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-04-15  8:06               ` Yinghai Lu

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