On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Christopher Zimmerman wrote:
> This deadlock has been around since 2.4.0-test1. However, sine 2.4.0-test1
> there has been a large improvement. I have to try much harder now to kill my
> boxes. As for the IRQ state I'm not sure I've never checked. Since my test
> machines are fairly stable I'm actually using them to do some massive data
> processing. Once all my processes have completed I'll try the cat /dev/hda >
> /dev/null & thing and monitor the IRQ state. Actually come to think of it
> how do you find out the IRQ state for a particular device?
Interesting that is when I began getting nailed for deadlocks also...
The driver has to export it to a procfs file for reading.
Currently PDC2026x cards and CMD64x cards do this in ATA.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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