Re: [patch, -rc5-mm1] locking validator: special rule: 8390.c disable_irq()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:41 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:31:40PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > > 8390.c knows that ei_local->page_lock can only be used by an irq
> > > > context that it disabled -
> > > 
> > > btw I think this is no longer correct with the irq polling stuff Alan
> > > added to the kernel recently...
> > 
> > We could make the misrouted IRQ logic skip all handlers on a disabled IRQ
> > but that might actually be worse than the disease we are trying to cure by
> > doing so.
> 
> yeah since misrouted irqs will cause the kernel do disable irqs 'at 
> random' more or less .. for which the handlers now would become 
> unreachable which isn't good.

couldnt most of these problems be avoided by tracking whether a handler 
_ever_ returned a success status? That means that irqpoll could safely 
poll handlers for which we know that they somehow arent yet matched up 
to any IRQ line?

	Ingo
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