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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:04:34 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: page fault in sched_ithd
Message-ID:  <20000911120434.C19431@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009111312230.401-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:18:37PM %2B1100
References:  <20000909210619.F77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009111312230.401-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Monday, 11 September 2000 at 13:18:37 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
>> After poking around a bit with remote GDB, this seems to be caused by a
>> stray IRQ 7, since irq == 7, ir == ithds[irq] == NULL, ir->foo == BOOM.
>>
>> The attached rather crude patch has "fixed" the problem for now, but
>> does anyone have any suggestions for a real fix?
>
> The stray interrupt handler needs to have a thread, or stray interrupts
> need to be handled as traps.  Stray interrupts are more like NMIs than
> normal interrupts, and NMIs are already (mis)handled as traps.

Independently of that, we need to be able to survive a spurious
interrupt on any IRQ.

Greg
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