Re: [PATCH] MIPS: SGI-IP28: disable use of ll/sc in kernel

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 05:19:42 EST


On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 12:17:04PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> SGI-IP28 systems only use broken R10k rev 2.5 CPUs, which could lock
> up, if ll/sc sequences are issued in certain order. Since those systems
> are all non-SMP, we can disable ll/sc usage in kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip28/cpu-feature-overrides.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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