On 05/02/2017 12:22 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
Changes since v5:
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* Alpha frontend patch rewritten; the former patch appears to drop clock interrupts, not exiting the kernel's idle loop. I never *really* figured out why, since both patches seem to annotate the same TBs in the same way.
There's definitely something odd going on.With a rebuild from scratch, the same symptoms have re-appeared for Alpha. So it really had nothing to do with the original patch. I'm at a bit of a loss...
r~