Re: [PATCH] Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near overflowing v2

Alan Cox
2010-03-25T11:56:35Z

> time. What's the point of running it with interrupts enabled ?

The underlying question you posed was why don't we kill off the running
with irqs enabled cases. That requires more work but should definitely
happen.

> Nothing, we just run into stack overflow problems. So what's better:
> an unreliable and ugly hackaround or just avoiding the possible stack
> overflow in the first place ?

I think you are trying to have a debate when we are in agreement anyway.
I don't btw think the workaround is 'unreliable', ugly as sin yes but the
logic appears sound.

Alan