Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:59:20 +0000

> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:19 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> [...]
>> Fortunately David Miller came to the rescue and personally debugged the
>> problem on one of the buildds, and fixed the problem. His solution, that
>> we are currently running on schroeder.debian.org, is attached.
>> 
>> Please include the patch in the sparc kernel package so that we can test
>> it widely, preferably ASAP. TIA.
> 
> This is not applicable to 2.6.32 as the spinlock API has changed.  I
> assume David will send a suitable patch to stable shortly, and we'll use
> that.

Read the my damn posting Ben!

There are two patches, first one is for 2.6.33 and the second one is
for 2.6.32 and beforehand.