Re: [PATCH] powerpc: use local var instead of local_paca->irq_happeneddirectly in __check_irq_replay

[Wang Sheng-Hui]

On 2012å05æ03æ 16:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 14:59 +0800, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
>> On 2012å05æ03æ 14:33, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
>>> if (unlikely(irq_happened != PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS))
>>>> 		__hard_irq_disable();
>>
>> I have commented out the 2 lines.
> 
> No, Only comment the test, you must absolutely leave the
> __hard_irq_disable() call ! That's the whole point of the test, make
> sure we unconditionally disable to see if that fixes the problem, in
> which case that will tell us that we somewhere accidentally leave
> irq_happened set to 0x01 while irqs are hard enabled.

It can work.
My system has been running for about 15 hours without crash.

> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
> 

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