Re: hppa mutex ipl diff

2014-01-30 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: David Gwynne da...@gwynne.id.au Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:59:15 +1000 is there anything in particular you're supposed to look for to see if it is or isnt working? either it locks up the machine (deadlock) or doesnt? Something like that. On 29 Jan 2014, at 8:06 pm, Mark Kettenis

hppa mutex ipl diff

2014-01-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
Here is a diff that makes mutexes raise their ipl to the highest level that has interrupts that take the kernel lock. This is necessary for the work dlg@ has been doing on making subsystems run without the kernel lock. This needs to be tested on an MP system, and unfortunately that's something I

Re: hppa mutex ipl diff

2014-01-29 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
I've been running a dpb build for hours and I've not seen problems. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:06:40AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: Here is a diff that makes mutexes raise their ipl to the highest level that has interrupts that take the kernel lock. This is necessary for the work dlg@ has been

Re: hppa mutex ipl diff

2014-01-29 Thread David Gwynne
is there anything in particular you're supposed to look for to see if it is or isnt working? either it locks up the machine (deadlock) or doesnt? On 29 Jan 2014, at 8:06 pm, Mark Kettenis mark.kette...@xs4all.nl wrote: Here is a diff that makes mutexes raise their ipl to the highest level