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

[Cedric Le Goater]

On 02/19/2015 07:09 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Cedric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com> writes:
>> On 02/18/2015 09:58 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks. I did not know how to handle it so I just reverted your patch 
>> for the moment.
> 
> Should be fixed in master now.
> 

yeah. I see that. thanks. I will give it a try.

C.