Hi,
On Sun, May 15 2011, Paul Parsons wrote:
There is a race condition in the tmio_mmc_irq() interrupt handler, caused by
the presence of a while loop, which results in warnings of spurious
interrupts. This was found on an HP iPAQ hx4700 whose HTC ASIC3 reportedly
incorporates the Toshiba
On Sun, 15 May 2011, Paul Parsons wrote:
There is a race condition in the tmio_mmc_irq() interrupt handler,
caused by the presence of a while loop, which results in warnings of
spurious interrupts. This was found on an HP iPAQ hx4700 whose HTC ASIC3
reportedly incorporates the Toshiba
I wouldn't call this a race.
If the hardware sets the next status bit before the interrupt handler reaches
the bottom of the loop, then the loop repeats, and the subsequent interrupt is
reported as spurious.
If the interrupt handler reaches the bottom of the loop before the hardware
sets the
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Paul Parsons wrote:
I wouldn't call this a race.
If the hardware sets the next status bit before the interrupt handler
reaches the bottom of the loop, then the loop repeats, and the
subsequent interrupt is reported as spurious.
If the interrupt handler reaches the
