Re: spinlocks() are severely broken in 2.2.X and 2.4.X for modules

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 1 Jul 2000 15:43:17 +0200

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Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Are you absolutely sure that broken fixup cause the SMP problems? A
> broken fixup within spinlock might cause hard crashes, continue as if
> the spinlock was acquired???

Quite. What we really need to diagnose this is the broken NWFS object
module and the input files used to create it.

-- Jamie

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