Re: SMP Linux-37-5
Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Fri, 9 May 1997 11:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 8 May 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > The pre-patch 37-5 works to make a SMP machine that boots!
> >
> > Linux quark 2.1.37 #3 Thu May 8 14:14:58 EDT 1997 i586
> >
> > I will now put in the new aic7xxx.c driver to see if that stops the
> > occasional hang that I still get.
>
> I have found a reason for some occasional hangs (this reason is hopefully
> _the_ reason, but we'll see). My rw-lock implementation had a misfeature
> wrt local interrupts (the rwlock implementation did actually work
> correctly, but required local interrupts to be disabled for readlocks, and
> that was a misfeature).
>
> I'll have a 2.1.37-6 out really soon now with this fixed, once I make it
> go through my torture-tests.
>
> Linus
>
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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