Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:02:20 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question) |
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Hi!
> So this is not our problem here. Anyway I guess it's time to hunt for > i8259 accesses in the kernel that lack the necessary spinlock, even when > they're not probably the cause of the problem we see here.
BTW what about trying to modify your work-around code to make it attempt to read the timer again? This way we could test whether it was a race condition during timer read or really timer jumping to a bogus value.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> <mj@suse.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ "This line is umop apisdn." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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