Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:59:34 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near overflowing v2 |
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> time. What's the point of running it with interrupts enabled ?
The underlying question you posed was why don't we kill off the running with irqs enabled cases. That requires more work but should definitely happen.
> Nothing, we just run into stack overflow problems. So what's better: > an unreliable and ugly hackaround or just avoiding the possible stack > overflow in the first place ?
I think you are trying to have a debate when we are in agreement anyway. I don't btw think the workaround is 'unreliable', ugly as sin yes but the logic appears sound.
Alan
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