On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> john stultz wrote:
> >
> > All,
> > This patch addresses the following problem: Linux cannot properly
> > handle the case where interrupts are disabled for longer then two ticks.
> >
>
> Question is: who is holding interrupts off for so long?
Unfortunately in my situation there is a card which can cause 30ms
stalls in an SMI handler. Yuck, I know. :P
> It might be better to implement a detection scheme inside
> the timer interrupt handler: if the time since last interrupt
> exceeds two ticks, whine and drop a backtrace.
>
> That backtrace will point up into the local_irq_enable() in
> the offending code, and we can go fix it?
Hmm, clever! That would be a very good check for software caused stalls.
I'll try to drop that in.
thanks for the feedback!
-john
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