On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:30:29PM -0800, Kevin Cernekee wrote: > + * No lock; only written during early bootup by CPU 0. And if that wasn't the case, an NMI might come at any time, even with the lock already being held which would result in a deadlock. NMIs are nasty stuff - and on MIPS they're just slightly more evil. Ralf