Re: [Bug #14388] keyboard under X with 2.6.31

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Comments? Does this work? Does it make any difference? It seems fairly 
> unlikely, but it's the only obvious problem I've seen in the tty buffering 
> code so far.
> 
> And that code is literally 3 years old, and it seems unlikely that a 
> regular _keyboard_ buffer would be able to hit the (rather small) race 
> condition. But other serialization may have hidden it, and timing 
> differences could certainly have caused it to trigger much more easily.

I use this (run as root) to trigger various problems in this
area... (portable between i386 and i386).

								Pavel

void
main(void)
{
	int i;
	iopl(3);
	while (1) {
		asm volatile("cli");
		//		for (i=0; i<20000000; i++)
		for (i=0; i<1000000000; i++)
			asm volatile("");
		asm volatile("sti");
		sleep(1);
	}
}


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