[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 5/8] spufs: don't call spu_run_init from spu_reacquire_runnable

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Aug 20 23:34:08 EST 2007


On Monday 20 August 2007, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> From: Andre Detsch <adetsch at br.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch fixes a major bug which was happening when a SPU thread
> advances its execution right after being restored to a SPU. A potentially
> outdated NPC value was being (re)written to the SPU.

This causes significant trouble for many users -- shouldn't we try to
get it into 2.6.23 already?

	Arnd <><



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