Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:34:34 -0800 | From | Ross Biro <> | Subject | Re: BUG: [2.4.18+] IDE Race Condition |
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The net effect of this race condition and the other one I spotted is that you may see some interesting messages in your log file and you can detect the race condition if you look for it hard enough. I don't currently see any bad effects.
Ross
Ross Biro wrote:
> > There is at least one more IDE race condition in 2.4.18 and > 2.4.21-pre3. Basically the interrupt for the controller being serviced > is left on while setting up the next command. I'm not sure how much > trouble it can cause but it does lead to some interesting stack traces. > > The condition > if (masked_irq && hwif->irq != masked_irq) > in ide_do_request should be replaced with > if (!masked_irq || hwif->irq != masked_irq) > in two places. >
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