Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932069AbWELNqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 09:46:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932071AbWELNqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 09:46:35 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.56]:46056 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932069AbWELNqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 09:46:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:46:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Ingo Molnar cc: Mark Hounschell , linux-kernel , Daniel Walker , Thomas Gleixner , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: 3c59x vortex_timer rt hack (was: rt20 patch question) In-Reply-To: <20060512133627.GA30447@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <4461E53B.7050905@compro.net> <446207D6.2030602@compro.net> <44623157.9090105@compro.net> <20060512081628.GA26736@elte.hu> <20060512092159.GC18145@elte.hu> <20060512133627.GA30447@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 22 On Fri, 12 May 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > 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. > Yes, but this is the source of Mark's bug, so he is definitely hitting it. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/