Re: 3c59x vortex_timer rt hack (was: rt20 patch question)

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> >
> > BTW, I originally thought about having Mark do this, but I'm nervious
> > about the side effects that this might have.  Basically, it's doing
> > ioreads from the device while the interrupt could be doing iowrites.
>
> yes, that can happen - but since this is a timeout, this is rather
> unlikely in practice. Nevertheless it's possible, so i marked the code a
> hack.
>

Yes, but this is the source of Mark's bug, so he is definitely hitting it.

-- Steve

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