> No, you don't get unlimited IRQ nesting, at least not on sane archs with > a decent PIC that does things like what I described above :-) Note that if unlimited nesting is what you are afraid of, you can do something along the lines of: - if (!(action->flags & IRQF_DISABLED)) + if (arch_nest_irq() && !(action->flags & IRQF_DISABLED)) local_irq_enable_in_hardirq(); With arch_nest_irq() then set to always return 0 if you want, or be smarter and check how much stack space is left, and return 1 only if above a reasonable threshold. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html