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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.5.59_lost-tick_A0
john stultz wrote:
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> All,
> This patch addresses the following problem: Linux cannot properly
> handle the case where interrupts are disabled for longer then two ticks.
>

Question is: who is holding interrupts off for so long?

It might be better to implement a detection scheme inside
the timer interrupt handler: if the time since last interrupt
exceeds two ticks, whine and drop a backtrace.

That backtrace will point up into the local_irq_enable() in
the offending code, and we can go fix it?
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