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

Alan Cox
2006-06-01T09:47:04Z

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:47:29PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 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?

But you may get random positive hits from this when a real IRQ for an
unrelated device happens to get delivered. We could poll enabled IRQs first
then disabled ones ?