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sparc64: Fix race in arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S
authorAndrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:33:03 +0000 (23:33 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 03:05:42 +0000 (19:05 -0800)
commitcb9eeb9a65a21538faeb6ce2e78e662598087624
treecda0fa8373f7e9c01e8e39e6f59d9be94b33cb9c
parent9a8eac41549d7ae0e40744177edd8dc8d59592e4
sparc64: Fix race in arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S

[ Upstream commit e0037df3852b4b60edbe01f70f4968e4a9fdb272 ]

Make arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S in 2.6.27.1 lock prom_entry_lock
when calling the PROM.  This prevents a race condition that I observed
causing a hang on startup on a 12-CPU E4500.

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Signed-off-by: Andrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S