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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near overflowing v2
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:10:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100326061029.GU20695@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003251054030.3721@i5.linux-foundation.org>

> Now, I think (and sincerely) that the SCSI situation is likely long since 
> fixed, but we have thousands and thousands of drivers, and these kinds of 
> things are very hard to notice automatically. Are there any cases around 
> that still have busy-loop delays based on real-time in their irq handlers? 
> I simply don't know.

This case was already broken back when the x86-64 port used to run
with NMI watchdog on by default, because any IO exception handling
with interrupts off would trigger the NMI watchdog eventually.

I remember having to add bandaids to Fusion for this a long time ago.

Of course ISA drivers might still do it.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-26  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-24 19:02 [PATCH] Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near overflowing v2 Andi Kleen
2010-03-24 20:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-24 23:08   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-25  0:36     ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-25  1:46       ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-25  9:37         ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-25 11:09           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-25 12:11             ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-25 13:17               ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-25 13:32                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-25 14:16                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-25 15:38                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-25 16:06                     ` Alan Cox
2010-03-25 16:13             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-25 16:17               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-25 16:27               ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-25 16:33                 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-25 18:27                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-26  4:55                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-25 16:52               ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-25 17:47               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 18:01                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-25 18:21                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 18:23                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 18:44                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-25 19:01                       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-25 18:29                   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-25 19:10                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-25 19:42                       ` David Miller
2010-03-25 20:40                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-26  3:33                           ` David Miller
2010-03-25 20:51                         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-25 20:53                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-26  6:10                   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-03-25 10:50         ` Alan Cox
2010-03-25 11:16           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-25 11:59             ` Alan Cox
2010-03-25 12:00             ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-25 11:57           ` Andi Kleen

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