On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:20:48 Ralf Baechle wrote: > Probing non-ISA interrupts using the handle_percpu_irq as their handle_irq > method may crash the system because handle_percpu_irq does not check > IRQ_WAITING. This for example hits the MIPS Qemu configuration. > > This patch provides two helper functions set_irq_noprobe and set_irq_probe > to set rsp. clear the IRQ_NOPROBE flag. The only current caller is MIPS > code but this really belongs into generic code. > > As an aside, interrupt probing these days has become a mostly obsolete if > not dangerous art. I think Linux interrupts should be changed to default > to non-probing but that's subject of this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To both patches: I can confirm that applying these two fixes together avoids the panic for me, although I thought qemu-system-mips used to have a working RTC, and I can't seem to find it now. (Make is unhappy with 1970. It was not a good year for make...) Thanks, Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
