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 19:18:01 +0000 (11:18 -0800)
commitf0d6570e2215dcdb93afc65564be6676456ce696
treebaf4ce55e0307ee0f8895f3836c1627f75eaf318
parent0cba8ac12e0720b32f03005b8c0113e85fadbd50
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