Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60 | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:25:20 +0200 |
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> To test this theory, could you try the patch below, does this fix your > hangs too?
Not tried yet, but obviously it does, since it's a superset of the previous fix. I could try without the smb_mb(), but see below.
> This change causes the memory access of the "easy" spin-loop portion > to be more agressive: after the REP; NOP we'd not do the 'easy-loop' > with a simple CMPB, but we'd re-attempt the atomic op.
It looks as if this is going to overflow of the lock counter, no?
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