From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
"xen-devel\@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IRQ handling race and spurious IIR read in serial/8250.c
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:09:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090312180955.1f52a401@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874oxyei9k.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>
> Ian Jackson recently debugged a problem reported by Anders Kaseorg, and
> posted a fix (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/11/240). As far as I can
> see, the patch has been dropped on the floor.
It was proposed as a band aid fix not a real fix. The real fix involves
finishing sorting out any locking issues Ian identified. I've not seen a
patch for that yet.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-12 17:57 Markus Armbruster
2009-03-12 18:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-03-12 19:30 ` Ian Jackson
2009-03-12 21:38 ` [Xen-devel] " Alan Cox
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2009-02-11 16:08 ` Ian Jackson
2009-02-19 17:52 ` Ian Jackson
2009-02-19 19:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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