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sparc64: Fix race in arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S
authorAndrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:33:03 +0000 (23:33 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:50:07 +0000 (10:50 -0800)
commit33d2a290f61a98eee0e135117bd3f628a5a00a08
tree929fb03a8ccfd67c033ba0323e4af3f931b60f60
parent5a150aee377ec6d080ce44d57935e3972136117a
sparc64: Fix race in arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S

[ Upstream commit e0037df3852b4b60edbe01f70f4968e4a9fdb272 ]

Make arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S in 2.6.27.1 lock prom_entry_lock
when calling the PROM.  This prevents a race condition that I observed
causing a hang on startup on a 12-CPU E4500.

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Signed-off-by: Andrea Shepard <andrea@persephoneslair.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S