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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	"Ryan C. England" <ryan.england@corvidtec.com>
Subject: Re: XFS causing stack overflow
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:00:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111211000036.GH24062@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111210221345.GG14273@dastard>

> Where does the x86-64 do the interrupt stack switch?

in entry_64.S

> 
> I know the x86 32 bit interrupt handler switches to an irq/softirq
> context stack, but the 64 bit one doesn't appear to. Indeed,
> arch/x86/kernel/irq_{32,64}.c are very different, and only the 32
> bit irq handler switches to another stack to process the
> interrupts...

x86-64 always used interrupt stacks and has used softirq stacks
for a long time. 32bit got to it much later (the only good 
thing left from that 4k stack "experiment")

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-11  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAAnfqPAm559m-Bv8LkHARm7iBW5Kfs7NmjTFidmg-idhcOq4sQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-09 11:55 ` XFS causing stack overflow Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-09 15:56   ` Ryan C. England
2011-12-09 22:19   ` Dave Chinner
     [not found]   ` <20111209221956.GE14273__25752.826271537$1323469420$gmane$org@dastard>
2011-12-10 19:52     ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-10 22:13       ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-11  0:00         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-12-11 23:05           ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-12  2:31             ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-12  4:36               ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-12  5:13                 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-12  9:00                   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-12 13:43                     ` Ryan C. England
2011-12-12 22:47                       ` Dave Chinner
     [not found] ` <20111209115513.GA19994__23079.9863501035$1323435203$gmane$org@infradead.org>
2011-12-09 19:53   ` Andi Kleen

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