Subject: Single-user reached on multiprocessor Alpha kernel
To: None <tech-smp@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-smp
Date: 11/20/2000 13:01:05
Thanks to Bill Sommerfeld who found a fatal bug in my CPU spinup
trampoline, we have gotten to single-user mode on a multiprocessor
Alpha running a multiprocessor kernel which runs both kernel and
user code on the secondary CPUs.
Now, the machine hung when we tried to do anything interesting (like
"fsck" :-), but once again, Bill came to the rescue and found the
deadlock while I was on my way to work. I've committed a fix for
the deadlock, and will test it tonight when I get home. It's likely
we'll have multi-user tonight.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>