Subject: Re: MIPS cpu_fork() runs kthreads at splhigh()
To: Rafal Boni <rafal.boni@eDial.com>
From: Jeffrey M. Smith <jeffs@atheros.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 04/23/2001 11:26:52
Rafal Boni wrote:
> From my quick peek at the MIPS cpu_fork() code, it looks like it
> suffers from the same problems the Alpha and i386 cpu_fork()s did,
> namely that it runs all kthreads at splhigh().
>
> Attached is a patch that I believe should fix this.
I don't have the code handy, but I belive this was fixed sometime last
year, and the spl was lowered later after the thread started.
jeffs