Re: threaded interrupt handlers: what if hardirq part not disablesdevice interrupt?

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 16:15 +0200, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> As alternative solution I can do the following as well:
> The driver now has a tasklet used for processing the queue. If I add
> IRQF_NO_THREAD as irq-flag, the thread is not created and the handler
> runs completely in hard-irq context. This seems to work okay, but it
> does not feel as the right solution.
> 
> How is this supposed to work? Do you have better ideas how to solve
> situations like this? 

This sounds like the total trainwreck known as tty/console, I believe
jwessel and tglx had some ideas on that. Maybe Jason can share what he
knows, I'm not up to speed on that issue.



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