From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATE] deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.c
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:06:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461EBB68.8010408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461EB938.6080807@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> (This was under Xen, but there's no reason it couldn't happen on bare
>>> hardware.)
>>>
>> Hmm, does Xen perhaps not use interrupt stacks?
>
> Looks like that's all done in do_IRQ, so it should be independent of
> whether its Xen or not. And the stack overflow check is performed on
> the main stack, before switching to the interrupt stack.
>
Yeah, the do_IRQ thing is misleading because it makes you think the
interrupt caused an overflow when all it did was detect a
near-overflow condition. (The number printed is the amount of space
left.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 8:25 [PATCH] deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 20:50 ` [PATCH UPDATE] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 21:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 22:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 23:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 23:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 23:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 22:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 23:02 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-13 0:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 23:06 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-04-12 22:25 ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-12 22:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 22:53 ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-16 21:04 ` Russell King
2007-04-13 18:42 ` Matt Mackall
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