> ia64: avoid broken SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations > > If SAL_CACHE_FLUSH drops interrupts, complain about it and fall back to > using PAL_CACHE_FLUSH instead. > > This is to work around a defect in HP rx5670 firmware: when an interrupt > occurs during SAL_CACHE_FLUSH, SAL drops the interrupt but leaves it marked > "in-service", which leaves the interrupt (and others of equal or lower > priority) masked. > > HP internal defect reports: F1859, F2775, F3031. Sometimes I forget to test patches against my zx2000 workstation (because it is such a pain to restart all my apps after I reboot). This patch slipped through. My zx2000 hasn't been booting since 2.6.15 and I finally spent the time to track down why. It hangs (or dies) inside check_sal_cache_flush() :-( -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Feb 18 07:03:47 2006
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