Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Rob Landley <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.24 says "serial8250: too much work for irq4" a lot. | | Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2008 01:04:52 -0600 |
On Thursday 07 February 2008 15:19:39 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:> > Specifically, qemu isn't paravirtualized, it's fully virtualized. The
> > same kernel can run on real hardware just fine. (Sort of the point of
> > the project...)> >> > I can yank the warning for the kernels I build (or set PASS_LIMIT to
> > 9999999), but I'd rather not carry any more patches than I can avoid...>> Patch attached, completely untested beyond compilation.
>> In particular:>> - we should probably clear the burst counter when the interrupt
> line goes from inactive to active.
> - there probably should be a timer which clears the burst
> counter.
>
> However, I think I've covered most of the bases...
Well, qemu still seems to work with the patch applied, and I haven't
reproduced the error message yet...
Rob
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"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
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