Re: [patch] io-apic-2.1.98-B

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:42:28 -0700 (PDT)

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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> It just hit me (figuratively): are you allowing interrupts to occur
> while the driver is still pondering about what to do in the mean time?

Not the same interrupt, no (this was actually the bug in my first patch
against 98). We allow _other_ interrupts to happen, but we do not allow
the same interrupt to "recurse", because as you say that would be very
bad.

Linus

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