Re: [PATCH] xirc2ps_cs irq return fix

[Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)]

On Maw, 2003-05-27 at 04:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It should only be turned on for special situations, where someone is trying
> to hunt down a reproducible lockup.  These are situations in which the odd
> false positive just doesn't matter.  And we know that there will always
> be false positives due to apic delivery latency (at least).
> 
> I think the time is right to do this.  Add CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQ and get on with
> fixing real stuff.

I not 100% convinced. I think it should be left by default but only if you get
something like a million unhandled interrupts in a row. Thats the "your box has died"
case where the info is useful anyway.

Maybe the number in a row is what you want to tweak in config or /proc/sys ?

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