SMP issues on ARM11 MPCore

[mkl lin]

>> It could be something to do with write allocate caches - we don't support
>> these particularly well in the kernel, and I wouldn't be surprised if
>> you've found some problem there.
>>
>> The fact that it only happens in SMP mode rather points at that, because
>> that's one of the few hardware configurations which does have write
>> allocate caches. To confirm this, we need someone who can run your
>> tests on a UP platform which has write allocate caches...
> I'm not familiar with the write allocate cache, but the same test without SMP doesn't have such issue.
> Or should I try to run 1CPU in SMP mode?
1CPU in SMP mode doesn't have this behavior, with maxcpus=1.
Would this two tests do instead?

Best Regards,
Mac Lin.

 		 	   		  
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