Fix small race in 44x tlbie function

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 9 23:26:59 EST 2007


On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:05:36 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 07:04 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > > We don't have critical wired to anything, I don't expect watchdog
> > to  
> > > cause another fault.. so just wondering.
> > 
> > We being who?  I'm slightly confused here. 
> 
> I think Kumar doesn't know that we are talking about the BG kernel
> which has more things "wired" to CRIT than what is upstream at the
> moment :-)

Ah, sure.  But even though we don't have much upstream that uses CE,
that doesn't mean someone can't reprogram the UICs on their boards to
use CE for some things, for example.  I know of at least one project
that has done that in the past.

josh



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