Re: Add support for checking before-the-fact whether an IRQ is

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 19:18, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.1552, 2003/12/29 10:18:11-08:00, torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > 	Add support for checking before-the-fact whether an IRQ is
> > 	already registered or not. The x86 PCI layer wants this for
> > 	its availability testing.
> > 	
> > 	Doing a request_irq()/free_irq() pair to check this condition
> > 	like we used to do can lock the machine if the irq happens to
> > 	be screaming.
> 
> 
> question; which lock prevents someone else claiming the irq and making
> it unsharable/unclaimable between can_request_irq() and the eventual
> request_irq() ????

Nothing. It never did. This is basically a heuristic: "find the irq that 
looks the least used".

I just fixed the heuristic so that it shouldn't cause problems if the 
system comes up with the BIOS having done something silly like leaving an 
irq pending..

		Linus
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