Messages in this thread | | | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Subject | Re: alpha bug in signal handling | Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:15:50 +0100 |
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> >I think David (Mosberger, not Miller :) is right here, and in fact >this is also wrong on PPC at the moment. However, the worst case is >that the reschedule or signal delivery will get delayed until the next >interrupt on that cpu (max 1/HZ seconds). Since it is a pretty narrow >window for the race I think it would be hard to observe the effect of >the bug.
Yup, I found that some time ago. I though I even fixed it while hacking on the return from exception path. The fix has probably been lost along with some of that experimental stuff I was doing at that time though, I remember you saying the problem wasn't that big.
Ben.
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