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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near overflowing v2
    > Now, I think (and sincerely) that the SCSI situation is likely long since 
    > fixed, but we have thousands and thousands of drivers, and these kinds of
    > things are very hard to notice automatically. Are there any cases around
    > that still have busy-loop delays based on real-time in their irq handlers?
    > I simply don't know.

    This case was already broken back when the x86-64 port used to run
    with NMI watchdog on by default, because any IO exception handling
    with interrupts off would trigger the NMI watchdog eventually.

    I remember having to add bandaids to Fusion for this a long time ago.

    Of course ISA drivers might still do it.

    -Andi
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    ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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