Re: System freezes, time jumps 3.25 days (was Re: sparc buildd issues)

2006-01-03 Thread Richard Mortimer
Dave, Below is a patch that closes a race condition reading the stick register on Hummingbird cpus. Previously the code always incremented the high word if the low had wrapped but we don't know if high was read before or after the wrap. This may (or may not :-) ) be the cause of a kernel lockup s

System freezes, time jumps 3.25 days (was Re: sparc buildd issues)

2005-12-30 Thread Richard Mortimer
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:46 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >> On a Sparc netra X1, the system partially freezes (some stuff continues > >> running but at least one of the operations nec