At some point in the past, my attribution was stripped from this comment:
>> This oopses on NUMA-Q sometime prior to TSC synch and then hangs in TSC
>> synch because not all cpus are responding where 2.5.47-mm3 (which
>> included some intermediate bk stuff) did not. This is because AP's are
>> taking timer interrupts before they are prepared to do so. Please apply
>> the following patch from Martin Bligh which resolves this issue:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:47:12PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> It seems to come and go randomly (timing issue), it's not new with 48.
> Has been happening since 44-mm3 or so. Just as a point of interest,
> doesn't seem to be the timer int itself that kill her, it's the
> softirq processing that happens in irq_exit on the way back.
This is all the more ammunition for the patch's inclusion. Linus, this
problem is even more severe and more persistent than I originally reported.
Please apply.
Thanks,
Bill
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