Re: Problems with hard irq? (inconsistent lock state)

From: Jarek Poplawski
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 04:35:47 EST


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:58:48PM +0200, Axel C. Voigt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> problem seems solved, testing extensively does not show the described behavior any more. What exactly does the patch using _irqsave functions instead of their counterparts? Is this worth to make public patch or just a quick hack to solve this particular problem?

It is a real problem but you have to have some "luck" to hit this.

Wish you luck,

Jarek P.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/