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#7 APIC/SMP bug

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nobody
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2001-04-22
2001-04-22
Anonymous
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Serial head/tail is NOT SMP or APIC IRQ safe as it
lacks spinlock() protection causing head/tail buffer
corruption. This leads to mouse jumpping problems and
incorrect event reports from a mouse device, and
probably all kinds of neat errors for those using PPP.
:-)

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