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DateThu, 3 Jul 2008 14:11:22 +0900
From"Magnus Damm" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] uio: User IRQ Mode
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Note that the irq is disabled instead of acked.  So this should not be a
>> problem.  The userspace part then is responsible to ack (first) and
>> unmask the irq.
>
> That still doesn't make sense.
>
> If you call disable_irq in the IRQ handler you will deadlock because it
> waits until the IRQ handler has completed.

Right, the uio_userirq_handler() function should use
disable_irq_nosync() instead of disable_irq(). Otherwise we'll end up
waiting forever for IRQ_INPROGRESS to be cleared in synchronize_irq()
in the case of CONFIG_SMP.

Thanks!

/ magnus


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