Please pull powerpc.git 'merge' branch

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Oct 26 08:02:18 EST 2006


On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Kumar Gala writes:
>
>> Can you hold off on the this.  The following patch is still under
>> discussion and the problem exists on more than just PPC.
>
> The patch that I put in fixes the problem in the situation where it
> was found, right?  That the problem may exist on other architectures
> isn't a reason not to fix it here.

Just if we come up with a more general solution.  I guess its ok if  
we paper tape over it, just didn't want to if we decide the change  
should be handled in more generic code.

>
>>> Scott Wood:
>>>       [POWERPC] IPIC: Fix spinlock recursion in set_irq_handler
>
> Paul.




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