Re: [PATCH 0/9] Fix unsafe disable_irq usage

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi Ben,

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 22:54:05 Ben Nizette wrote:
> After being bitten by unsafe usage of disable_irq from within that irq's
> handler [1], I went through and used Coccinelle to audit the rest of
> drivers/ too.  This turned up 9 more unsafe usages.
>
> As Haavard pointed out in that thread, disable_irq waits for running
> handlers of an irq to complete before returning.  When a handler
> disable_irq's its own irq then we see a deadlock.
>
> Note that this wasn't actually observed in the wild until the recent
> merge of
>
> commit 3aa551c9b4c40018f0e261a178e3d25478dc04a9
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Mar 23 18:28:15 2009 +0100
>
>     genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support
>
>     Add support for threaded interrupt handlers
>
>

Applied all 4 patches affecting input devices, they should show up next
time Linus pulls from me. Thank you.

-- 
Dmitry
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