* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to > the PIT: It uses a local lock. > > On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the > architecture code. The separate locking in the PC-speaker code ignores > the global lock and creates a nasty race between the PC-speaker and the > PIT clock source / events code on SMP machines. > > Use the global i8253_lock instead of the local i8253_beep_lock, when > compiled for i386/x86_64.
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