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On Friday 26 November 2004 08:54, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 26 Nov 2004 at 08h11, David Brownell wrote: > > Hi, > > > The infinite loop means that something trashed the stack, yes? > > > > The "limit-- < -1000" test below should never be able to succeed > > unless the previous "limit-- == 0" test got trashed by having > > something obliterate the stack. > > Sure? the (limit -- == 0) gotoes higher to test again. > from what I understand the loop goes back to rescan 1000 times, then once > to sanitize, then to back to rescan again infinetely... > I may be wrong but I don't think there's a stack corruption there. The "limit" isn't tested a 1001st time, since the ED state changed. For that matter, any time that the IRQ lossage appears, there's always been something that damaged the IRQ setup. - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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