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Disabling IRQF_DISABLED

Disabling IRQF_DISABLED

Posted Apr 2, 2010 23:35 UTC (Fri) by eparis123 (guest, #59739)
Parent article: Disabling IRQF_DISABLED

Having the possibility of a kernel stack overflow due to buggy hardware sounds scary. Hopefully we will all have handlers running with local interrupts disabled in the future! (I guess this might also make the 4K kernel stacks experience smoother)


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