[Skiboot] [PATCH 04/13] Don't run pollers in time_wait() when a lock is held

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 19 07:58:56 AEDT 2015


On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 16:12 +0100, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> openpower systems call ipmi_wdt_init() which calls
> ipmi_queue_msg_sync().
>         
> and then, they just loop endlessly in time_wait_ms(100) :/

Yes, it's a design bug in the ipmi code I just noticed. It shouldn't
spin with a lock held. I'll try to fix that with Alistair today.

Cheers,
Ben.




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