On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:13:49 +0000 (UTC), Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven dixit: > > >If I'm not mistaken, the warning was just a false positive, so I didn't > >submit > >the fix for stable? > > Was it just the warning issued, or was there really something > wrong with interrupt handling on Atari, that's the question > here (which *I* cannot answer). I was under the impression it > fixed a warning, too, but Andreas' mail suggested it may have > been a fix for interrupt handling or somesuch...
Although the kernel warning turned out to be a false positive, the underlying cause was a real bug with real consequences: a CPU-bound process could block nfeth interrupts for unbounded periods of time. (I did describe that in the patch message, but perhaps I didn't emphasize it enough.) I've seen it happen too, with gcc bootstraps being killed because log output via a pipe and nfeth couldn't be drained entually SIGPIPEing the builds. /Mikael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
