Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 03 May 2008 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 'global' rq->clock | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 00:38:44 +0200
> the same bug existed on x86 too: that too does a few IPIs without > irq_enter/irq_exit. We now removed the softlockup dependency so it > should not be required to do an irq_enter()/exit anymore - unless the > code that the IPI uses accesses jiffies. (but that would be unusual)
That move doesn't solve the problem, I'm strongly certain arch's still need to add the irq_{enter,exit}().
I'll revert the irq_{enter,exit}() changes on one of my sparc64 boxes to validate this later today.
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