Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:13:03AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
I'm sorry, I read Josip's introduction referring to 'the patch' and skipped
straight to the first patch without reading your introduction. I'll apply
the second patch.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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