Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:30:41 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...) |
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> _without_ IRQF_ENABLED: where an IRQ handler can take a long > time to execute, the handler can be converted to a threaded IRQ > handler - where it's fine to enable IRQs as there are no stack > nesting issues.
Only if you can mask the interrupt on the APIC without losing it or having the APIC throw a fit.
> So there's no real technical problem here.
In the long term no - but forcing people to make sudden changes to critical I/O drivers isn't the right way to do it.
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