Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:30:54 -0000 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Garrett Cooper" <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>, "Andriy Gapon" <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machdep.hlt_cpus not safe with ULE? Message-ID: <7048D14F1FD341F2AFD2B0CB13C95477@multiplay.co.uk> References: <8332E9240ECA403480B48D21FA3A8694@multiplay.co.uk><4D6292DD.8010704@freebsd.org> <AANLkTinmSpwW4-TcJDZAB8p1_%2BPOUhA06PjJeYUN-w=V@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Garrett Cooper" <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>
> As a followup to this and based on discussions with other folks,
> the fact that it's using hlt to halt CPUs without rescheduling tasks /
> masking interrupts, etc is not good. So none of the *hlt* sysctls are
> really doing the right thing on x86.
Time to disable them until they are fixed properly then I would suggest?
Regards
Steve
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