Re: ARAnyM VMs with Debian hanging at 100% CPU usage

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Mikael Pettersson dixit:

>On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:13:49 +0000 (UTC), Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
>> Geert Uytterhoeven dixit:
>>
>> >If I'm not mistaken, the warning was just a false positive, so I didn't submit
>> >the fix for stable?
>>
>> Was it just the warning issued, or was there really something
>> wrong with interrupt handling on Atari, that's the question
[…]
>Although the kernel warning turned out to be a false positive, the
>underlying cause was a real bug with real consequences: a CPU-bound
>process could block nfeth interrupts for unbounded periods of time.
[…]
>I've seen it happen too, with gcc bootstraps being killed because log
>output via a pipe and nfeth couldn't be drained entually SIGPIPEing
>the builds.

Hi Ben,

this should probably justify inclusion of the other (0001-*) patch.
Thanks Mikael for clearing this up!

bye,
//mirabilos
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