From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:14:41 -0400 (EDT)

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> Are you sure? What about this:
> ide-io.c:ide_intr
>          if (drive->unmask)
>                  local_irq_enable_in_hardirq();
> 
> or this:
> kernel/irq/handle.c:handle_IRQ_event
>          if (!(action->flags & IRQF_DISABLED))
>                  local_irq_enable_in_hardirq();
> 
> 
> --- how is number of nested interrupts here supposed to be limited?
> 
> If these things are not limited, you get at most as many nested handlers 
> as there are hardware interrupts, which means crash.

It means i386 and every other platform potentially has the same exact
problem.

What point wrt. sparc64 are you trying to make here? :-)


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