Re: SPARC32 SMP IRQ15 question

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On 22 December 2010 23:28, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:23:27 +0100
>
>> I will try to create a patch for the atomic layer for SMP LEON systems
>> since they have the CASA instruction.
>
> But see my other posting, you still have to fix the irq15 problem.
>
> Merely switching to CASA doesn't mean you don't still have a problem
> because spin_lock_irqsave() and other similar pieces of code expect
> they will not be interrupted by smp_call_function() calls.

Was SPARC32 SMP in 2.4 also implemented using IRQ15/NMI ?
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