From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:14:41 -0400 (EDT) > Are you sure? What about this: > ide-io.c:ide_intr > if (drive->unmask) > local_irq_enable_in_hardirq(); > > or this: > kernel/irq/handle.c:handle_IRQ_event > if (!(action->flags & IRQF_DISABLED)) > local_irq_enable_in_hardirq(); > > > --- how is number of nested interrupts here supposed to be limited? > > If these things are not limited, you get at most as many nested handlers > as there are hardware interrupts, which means crash. It means i386 and every other platform potentially has the same exact problem. What point wrt. sparc64 are you trying to make here? :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
