Re: per interrupt stack [was Re: Strange interrupt behaviour]

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangel@CS.UniBO.IT)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:50:59 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:

> a missed 'current->counter -= ticks', and infinitly running user-space
> code? Since the need_resched flag is detected after returning from
> do_IRQ(), schedule() never sees the decrement and will always select that
> process, causing a 'soft hang', where you can ping the box but nothing
> really works. Does this describe your hang?

Yes! Ping worked while X was not more respondig to the keyboard and mouse
input. So your current->real->counter should fix that.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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