Hi, The epilogue for the DECstation's IRQ handler is buggy -- it permits infinite interrupt recursion which may lead to a stack overflow. I wasn't able to check if that's the reason of random crashes I get when I run strace at the console, yet, but it might be -- the load might be up to 10k interrupts per second if data is available in time. Please apply. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + patch-mips-2.4.0-do_irq-0 diff -up --recursive --new-file linux-mips-2.4.0-20010126.macro/arch/mips/dec/irq.c linux-mips-2.4.0-20010126/arch/mips/dec/irq.c --- linux-mips-2.4.0-20010126.macro/arch/mips/dec/irq.c Sun Dec 3 05:26:46 2000 +++ linux-mips-2.4.0-20010126/arch/mips/dec/irq.c Thu Feb 8 07:44:10 2001 @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ asmlinkage void do_IRQ(int irq, struct p } while (action); if (do_random & SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM) add_interrupt_randomness(irq); - unmask_irq(irq); __cli(); + unmask_irq(irq); } irq_exit(cpu, irq);