Re: [PATCH] (Longhaul 1/5) PCI: Protect bus master DMA fromLonghaul by rw semaphores

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Jun 29 2006 - 07:20:11 EST


Ar Mer, 2006-06-28 am 20:25 +0200, ysgrifennodd RafaÅ Bilski:
> AUTOHALT, this means interrupts must be disabled except for the time tick,
> which should be reset to >=1ms. Care must be taken to avoid other system events
> that could interfere with this operation. A few examples are snooping, NMI,
> INIT, SMI and FLUSH."

"snooping". So we do need the cache sorting out.

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