re: Pausing/resuming CPU's in DDB

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> On my 8-way E3500, I almost always see some of the CPU's fail to pause when
> entering DDB, and fail to resume when leaving.  This makes it hard to obtain
> CPU-specific information for some CPU's.  Martin suggested that a loop around
> the pause/resume code might help here, and the attached patch works for me.
> Does anyone see any problem with it?

why does this work?  hmmm.  i'd much rather figure out the root cause
and fix that, than put this workaround in place...

but i don't object.


.mrg.