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authorSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2014-02-19 11:21:34 +0100
committerSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2014-03-06 09:43:58 +0100
commitba25cc208c5c83453a57cc42e402c55ac3ffe019 (patch)
tree65fb290fb28342134eb6ab860cfe4b07fa2261ed /cpukit/score/src/smp.c
parentscore: SMP initialization and shutdown changes (diff)
downloadrtems-ba25cc208c5c83453a57cc42e402c55ac3ffe019.tar.bz2
score: Add and use _Giant_Drop()
New test smptests/smpfatal03.
Diffstat (limited to 'cpukit/score/src/smp.c')
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diff --git a/cpukit/score/src/smp.c b/cpukit/score/src/smp.c
index 0f632236b7..e56073d281 100644
--- a/cpukit/score/src/smp.c
+++ b/cpukit/score/src/smp.c
@@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ void _SMP_Request_shutdown( void )
Per_CPU_Control *self_cpu = _Per_CPU_Get_by_index( self );
_Per_CPU_State_change( self_cpu, PER_CPU_STATE_SHUTDOWN );
+
+ /*
+ * We have to drop the Giant lock here in order to give other processors the
+ * opportunity to receive the inter-processor interrupts issued previously.
+ * In case the executing thread still holds SMP locks, then other processors
+ * already waiting for this SMP lock will spin forever.
+ */
+ _Giant_Drop( self );
}
void _SMP_Send_message( uint32_t cpu, uint32_t message )