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

Alan Cox
2006-06-04T21:12:04Z

Ar Sul, 2006-06-04 am 12:22 -0400, ysgrifennodd Steven Rostedt:
> But can't this machine still cause an interrupt storm if the interrupt
> comes on a wrong line, and we don't call the handler for the interrupt
> source because we are now honoring disable_irq?

Yes - that is why we can't honour disable_irq in this case but have to
hope 8)