On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:47 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Some device has an interrupt handler that is called and preempted. > At that moment the module for that device is unloaded. This calls things > like kstop_machine that should make sure that all interrupt handlers have > been resolved. But this does not work with -rt, since the interrupt > handlers can now be preempted and resume after the kstop_machine and the > moduling being unloaded. > > Since the code for the interrupt handler no longer exists... KABOOM! > > Enough details? yeah, you have to assume the device is not in use, but still handling interrupts? Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
