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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] IRQ handling race and spurious IIR read in seria 
| To: | Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> |  
| Subject: | [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] IRQ handling race and spurious IIR read in serial/8250.c |  
| From: | Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
| Date: | Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:09:55 +0000 |  
| Cc: | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Ian,	Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>,	"xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
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| > Ian Jackson recently debugged a problem reported by Anders Kaseorg, and
> posted a fix (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/11/240).  As far as I can
> see, the patch has been dropped on the floor.
It was proposed as a band aid fix not a real fix. The real fix involves
finishing sorting out any locking issues Ian identified. I've not seen a
patch for that yet.
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