SMP _death_

Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:45:49 -0400 (EDT)

The following patch seems to fix the SMP death problem on my machine.

--- /usr/src/linux-2.1.36/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c.orig Mon Apr 28 01:31:43 1997
+++ /usr/src/linux-2.1.36/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c Mon Apr 28 08:34:36 1997
@@ -543,6 +543,7 @@
{
struct irqaction * action;
int do_random, cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ synchronize_irq();
irq_enter(cpu, irq);
kstat.interrupts[irq]++;

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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