imx6q restart is broken

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Thu Aug 9 10:24:47 EDT 2012


On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:01:37PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:57:55PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Then try running some other programs.  If I'm correct, this should
> > result in the system becoming rather unresponsive.
> 
> I should better describe what I mean by "unresponsive" - it won't lock
> the system up (because the dmb loop will be interrupted from time to
> time) but it should make it rather sluggish to deal with page faults on
> other CPUs.

You are right.  I'm seeing exactly the "unresponsive" you describe here
after launching that little program.

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Regards,
Shawn




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