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SubjectRe: BUG: Kernel Panic: kernel-2.6.0-test9-bk21 for alpha in scsi context ll_rw_blk.c
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:48:49PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Well, the architecture manual requires these instructions have no
> visible effect whatsoever, i. e. they never trap.

No. Unaligned != invalid.

We shouldn't prefetch the spinlocks on UP.

Ivan.

--- 2.6/include/asm-alpha/processor.h Sat Oct 25 22:44:54 2003
+++ linux/include/asm-alpha/processor.h Tue Nov 18 01:48:39 2003
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_stru
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
#define ARCH_HAS_SPINLOCK_PREFETCH

+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
+/* Nothing to prefetch. */
+#define spin_lock_prefetch(lock) do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
#if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 1)
extern inline void prefetch(const void *ptr)
{
@@ -89,10 +94,13 @@ extern inline void prefetchw(const void
__builtin_prefetch(ptr, 1, 3);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
extern inline void spin_lock_prefetch(const void *ptr)
{
__builtin_prefetch(ptr, 1, 3);
}
+#endif
+
#else
extern inline void prefetch(const void *ptr)
{
@@ -104,10 +112,13 @@ extern inline void prefetchw(const void
__asm__ ("ldq $31,%0" : : "m"(*(char *)ptr));
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
extern inline void spin_lock_prefetch(const void *ptr)
{
__asm__ ("ldq $31,%0" : : "m"(*(char *)ptr));
}
+#endif
+
#endif /* GCC 3.1 */

#endif /* __ASM_ALPHA_PROCESSOR_H */
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