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SubjectRe: SMP

On Mon, 12 May 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> Question? When SMP is finally robust and stable, if there is a crash, shall
> we expect two panics <grin>? Gotta halt both CPUs in panic. This might
> be the reason why SMP crashes seem to be more prone to trashing file-systems.
> The second CPU might be writing some bad stuff to the file-system before
> it panics.

from kernel/panic.c:

#ifdef __SMP__
smp_message_pass(MSG_ALL_BUT_SELF, MSG_STOP_CPU, 0, 0);
#endif

this is supposed to stop the other CPU as fast as possible. (we might even
want to make that an NMI interrupt)

-- mingo


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