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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:55:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379724942.22775.8.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130920111151.GR12926@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 13:11 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 01:03:17PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It fixes stacks overruns reported by Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378330796.4321.50.camel%40pasglop
> > > 
> > > So I don't really dislike this patch-series, but isn't "irq_exit()"
> > > (which calls the new softirq_on_stack()) already running in the
> > > context of the irq stack? And it's run at the very end of the irq
> > > processing, so the irq stack should be empty too at that point.
> > 
> > Right, but most of the implementations are braindamaged.
> > 
> >       irq_enter();
> >       handle_irq_on_hardirq_stack();
> >       irq_exit();
> 
> I was only just staring at i386 and found it did exactly that. It had to
> jump through preempt_count hoops to make that work and obviously I
> hadn't test-build the preempt patches on i386.

Right and powerpc does the switch even later when calling the individual
handlers.

Ben.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-21  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ 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 [this message]
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  7:56                             ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-09-23 10:13                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-23 16:47                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-23 20:51                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24  5:42                           ` [PATCH v2] " 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
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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