RE: Problem of concurrency in arch/ppc/8260_io/uart.c

Oh, I almost forgot. Yes I would like to see your test 
program. One of the
reasons I haven't chased the problem is because it keeps 
disappearing;-)

Dean Dayton

Here is, in attachement, the test program.
There are two files in the tar:

  -- testprintk.c --
    A module that adds a device /dev/tpk.
    Once a file descriptor is obtained on this device,
    an internal timer starts, which calls "printk",
    each 10 ticks (100ms in my setup). When the file descriptor
    is released, the timer stops.

  -- main.c --
    A simple user mode program that opens /dev/tpk,
    and then performs an infinite loop printing to the stdout.
    When the program stops (Ctrl-C), the descriptor will be
    released by Linux, stopping the internal timer.

With that test, the problem almost immediatly appears.

BTW, the same problem is on the 860 also, which can be diagnosed the same way.

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