On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:59:19 -0500
Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > On 12/19/06, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > So an external interrupt occurred, the system tried to use interrupt
> > > descriptor #39 decimal (irq 7), but the descriptor was invalid.
> > 
> > but the irq is disabled at that time.
> > 
> > can you use attached diff to verify if the irq is enable somehow?
> 
> But it seems interrupts are on--look at the flags:
> 
>         RSP: 0018:ffffffff803cdf68  EFLAGS: 00010246
> 

down_write()->__down_write()->__down_write_nested()->spin_unlock_irq()->dead

Could someone please test this?


--- a/lib/rwsem-spinlock.c~a
+++ a/lib/rwsem-spinlock.c
@@ -195,13 +195,14 @@ void fastcall __sched __down_write_neste
 {
        struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
        struct task_struct *tsk;
+       unsigned long flags;
 
-       spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
 
        if (sem->activity == 0 && list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) {
                /* granted */
                sem->activity = -1;
-               spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
                goto out;
        }
 
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@ void fastcall __sched __down_write_neste
        list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
 
        /* we don't need to touch the semaphore struct anymore */
-       spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
 
        /* wait to be given the lock */
        for (;;) {
_

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