Unpredictable problems with APIC renumbering

Scott Ballantyne sdb at ssr.com
Wed Sep 3 10:38:03 PDT 2003


John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On 29-Aug-2003 Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> > John Baldwin writes:
> >> 
> >> Ack, that patch was for current.  Try using
> >> 'eflags = read_eflags(); disable_intr();' in place of intr_disable()
> >> and 'write_eflags(eflags);' in place of intr_restore().
> > 
> > Thanks! That builds with no problem, and I am running it now. I will
> > let you know how it goes.
> 
> Did this work?
> 

I hadn't forgotten you :-) It seems fine so far, but since it didn't
happen on every reboot, it's hard to say. I was going to give it a few
more days before letting you know.

If you have a suggestion for how to stress test it, I would be happy
to do it.

Scott 
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sdb at ssr.com


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