cpus_in_xmon questions

[linas at austin.ibm.com]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:37:12AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> Then xmon could call khvcd_stop/start() functions on enter/exit, which
> just del_timer/add_timer(&hvc_timer).
>
> Or does that rely on too much external working code from xmon?

Why, just last week, I worked a bug involving corrupted timers.
All the cpu's had spinlocked or otherwise deadlocked on a bad pointer
in a timer.

Rare, maybe, but true. Never say 'never again'.

--linas

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