PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 22:23 -0500, pacman at kosh.dhis.org wrote:
> The diff fragment above applied inside prom_close_stdin, but there are
> some
> prom_printf calls after prom_close_stdin. Calling prom_printf after
> closing
> stdout sounds like it could be bad. If I moved it down below all the
> prom_printf's, it would be after the "quiesce" call. Would that be
> acceptable
> (or even interesting as an experiment)? Does a close need a quiesce
> after it?

Just try :-) "quiesce" is something that afaik only apple ever
implemented anyways. It uses hooks inside their OF to shut down all
drivers that do bus master (among other HW sanitization tasks).

Cheers,
Ben.