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SubjectRe: Get rid of IRQF_DISABLED - (was [PATCH] genirq: warn about IRQF_SHARED|IRQF_DISABLED)
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:37:03PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Now, at the risk of covering old ground, how about we have two separate
> irqaction lists, one for handlers to be called with irqs disabled and
> one for handlers with irqs enabled. We run the irqs-disabled list
> first, naturally with irqs disabled. If, at the end of that run (or
> maybe after each handler), IRQs have ended being enabled, print some
> diagnostics. (We're going to need something like this to ensure that
> drivers interrupt handlers don't enable IRQs themselves.) Then enable
> IRQs and run the irqs-enabled chain.

Oh, and the other interesting thing to do may be to have a way of
measuring how much time irq handlers run for, so that handlers taking
an excessive time (more than 0.5ms or so - thinking about the 1000Hz
timer rate found on some arches) can be targetted.


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