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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:56:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130924135622.GA21410@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379997777.5443.24.camel@pasglop>

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:42:57PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 04:44 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > So the safest way to fix this is to unconditionally call do_softirq()
> > from irq_exit().
> > A performance penalty may come along but safety primes.
> > 
> > We should probably do that and work on longer term solutions (Kconfig
> > based arch switch, etc...)
> > for the next merge window?
> 
> As you prefer, though I'm keen on getting the "fast" version in RHEL7 if
> RH will take it :-)

So what is the fast version? Converting __do_softirq() to do_softirq()
unconditionally.

RH will accept any fix that goes upstream.

> 
> From the generic code POV, it's a one-liner #ifdef to select between
> do_softirq and __do_softirq() right ? Then it's up to the arch to
> #define I_CAN_DO_FAST !

I'd rather say #define I_CAN_DO_SAFE :)

But I guess the kind of symbol we want is some ARCH_HAS_IRQ_STACK_LOW_HANDLER

> 
> > I'll respin the series plus the regression fix, unless somebody has a
> > better solution.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-19 19:51 [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-19 19:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] irq: Consolidate do_softirq() arch overriden implementations Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-19 19:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] irq: Execute softirq on its own stack on irq exit Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-19 19:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] irq: Comment on the use of inline stack for ksoftirqd Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-20  0:02 ` [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix Linus Torvalds
2013-09-20  1:53   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-20 11:03   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-09-20 11:11     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-21  0:55       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-20 16:26     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-20 17:30       ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-09-20 18:37         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-20 22:14       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-21  7:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-21 18:58         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-21 21:45           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-21 23:27             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-22  2:01             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-22  4:39               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-22  4:41                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-22 16:24                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-22 17:47                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-22 22:00                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-22 21:56                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-22 22:22                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-22 22:38                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23  4:35                           ` [PATCH] powerpc/irq: Run softirqs off the top of the irq stack Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23  4:35                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23  7:56                             ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-09-23  7:56                               ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-09-23 10:13                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23 10:13                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23 16:47                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-23 16:47                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-23 20:51                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23 20:51                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24  5:42                           ` [PATCH v2] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24  5:42                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23 17:59                         ` [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix Chris Metcalf
2013-09-23 20:57                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24 19:27                             ` Chris Metcalf
2013-09-24 20:58                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24  0:10                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24  1:19                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-24  1:52                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24  8:04                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-24  8:16                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24  8:21                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-24  9:31                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23  4:40             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23  5:01               ` David Miller
2013-09-24  2:44               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-24  4:42                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24 13:56                   ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2013-09-24 20:55                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-25  8:46                       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-21  0:52       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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