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DateMon, 26 May 2008 10:58:24 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [patch, -git] pcie hotplug bootup crash fix
* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:47:09 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I updated Ingo's patch. If it's ok, I'll send it to Jess Barnes with 
> > > some other patches for the other pciehp regression problems.
> > 
> > looks good to me, thanks Kenji.
> > 
> 
> It's a bit sad to add a large workaround like this.  I'm surprised 
> that fixing it properly is considered unviable for 2.6.26.  Normally 
> these fixes are pretty simple - just request the IRQ a bit later?

hm, will that solve the problem? These irqs can be shared and there can 
be multiple of them, so making the handlers robust against 
half-constructed global state seems inevitable (the other option would 
be extra locking). But i've only looked briefly ...

	Ingo


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