From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752640AbXCHUPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:15:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752643AbXCHUPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:15:43 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:57364 "EHLO netops-testserver-3.corp.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752640AbXCHUPm (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:15:42 -0500 From: Pat Gefre Message-Id: <200703082015.l28KFchD258554@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 Altix : console fix for CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ usage To: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:15:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: pfg@sgi.com (Pat Gefre), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070307143809.f103944f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> from "Andrew Morton" at Mar 07, 2007 02:38:09 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org + + On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:57:07 -0600 (CST) + Pat Gefre wrote: + + > The sn console driver was snagged by the use of CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ ! + > + > The request_irq() immediate call to the interrupt handler caused + > another attempt to lock the port lock - deadlock. + > + > This is a patch to fix that. + + Should this go into 2.6.20.x as well? + Sure. I don't see why not. -- Pat