Re: [patch, -rc5-mm3] fix irqpoll some more

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 10:49 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > +	/*
> > +	 * HACK:
> > +	 *
> > +	 * In the first pass we dont touch handlers that are behind
> > +	 * a disabled IRQ line. In the second pass (having no other
> > +	 * choice) we ignore the disabled state of IRQ lines. We've
> > +	 * got a screaming interrupt, so we have the choice between
> > +	 * a real lockup happening due to that screaming interrupt,
> > +	 * against a theoretical locking that becomes possible if we
> > +	 * ignore a disabled IRQ line.
> 
> FYI, with irqpoll on in my i386 SMP machine, I hit this theoretical 
> locking every time in the vortex driver.

you got a lockup/deadlock every time, due to the bug that the lock 
validator pointed out?

	Ingo
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