* Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > --- linux-rt.q.orig/drivers/net/3c59x.c
> > +++ linux-rt.q/drivers/net/3c59x.c
> > @@ -1897,7 +1897,8 @@ vortex_timer(unsigned long data)
> >
> > if (vp->medialock)
> > goto leave_media_alone;
> > - disable_irq(dev->irq);
> > + /* hack! */
> > + disable_irq_nosync(dev->irq);
> > old_window = ioread16(ioaddr + EL3_CMD) >> 13;
> > EL3WINDOW(4);
> > media_status = ioread16(ioaddr + Wn4_Media);
>
> BTW, I originally thought about having Mark do this, but I'm nervious
> about the side effects that this might have. Basically, it's doing
> ioreads from the device while the interrupt could be doing iowrites.
yes, that can happen - but since this is a timeout, this is rather
unlikely in practice. Nevertheless it's possible, so i marked the code a
hack.
Ingo
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