Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754264AbYAVVx5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:53:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751045AbYAVVxu (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:53:50 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:58142 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbYAVVxt (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:53:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:53:18 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Ingo Molnar cc: Arnd Hannemann , Jordan Crouse , Lars Heete , Andres Salomon , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [git pull] was: Re: 2.6.24-rc8 hangs at mfgpt-timer In-Reply-To: <20080122211014.GA27870@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20080116165606.3ebc06a4@ephemeral> <478FCDB6.4010708@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <4795B14C.7040502@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <200801221111.21240.hel@admin.de> <4795D120.7070806@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <20080122192757.GC5241@cosmic.amd.com> <47965806.6080903@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <20080122211014.GA27870@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1099 Lines: 32 On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Arnd Hannemann wrote: > > > > The attached patch rearranges the code so that the handler is > > > installed before we setup the interrupt (so we have somebody to > > > listen to the immediate interrupt), and it makes sure that we clear > > > the event in the IRQ handler regardless of the state of the timer > > > tick. > > > > This patch indeed solves the problem. The board boots fine. Great > > work! > > since this driver is new in 2.6.24, perhaps we should apply this fix to > v2.6.24? Yes. It is definitely a safe change and makes otherwise broken systems work. There is no impact to anything else than the GEODEs. Linus, if you agree, please pull the fix from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/