[PATCH] Linux-0.99.4 (January 20, 1993)
net-1: random addition of "volatile" keywords to try to hide race conditions in the code. File locking updated with shared and exclusive locks for BSD flock. Re-mounting of filesystems and new mount system call. Re: Freeze up on X In article <1993Jan21.181502.23485@miles.com> dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty) writes: > >Here's another clue. Try this: when your system freezes, running X, try >MOVING THE MOUSE. It's weird!! But moving the mouse actually makes the >system run! Stop moving the mouse, and the system freezes again. And >this only happens with 0.99.3, not 0.99.2. Get pl4, and it should be gone. There was a bug in the handling of uninitialized interrupts in pl3, where they could result in either the wrong interrupt mask being loaded leading to interrupt lock-out or (in some cases) bit corruption at the user level. The symptoms are exactly as you describe: a good interrupt that didn't happen to be locked out will correct the interrupt mask, and the system goes on (it can be moving the mouse, but it might also be a keyboard event etc). Linus
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