From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@elte.hu, joe@perches.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/62] sparc: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:57:21 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1109071954200.2723@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110907.135110.2069876782156753239.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, David Miller wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:33:52 +0200 (CEST)
>
> We had big problems when openning thousands of virtual network
> devices, each with their own unique IRQ, and pointed all at the same
> cpu, and we'd get IRQ stack overflows.
>
> See commit c58543c869606532c2382f027d6466f4672ea756
>
> So this change to make IRQF_DISABLED a nop has reintroduced this bug.
See commit e58aa3d2d0cc01ad8d6f7f640a0670433f794922
We run ALL interrupt handlers with interrupts disabled for that reason
and we even check and yell when an interrupt handler returns with
interrupts enabled. That's why IRQF_DISABLED became meaningless.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-07 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1315383059-3673-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 13/62] microblaze: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 17/62] powerpc: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-08 16:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 18/62] score: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 24/62] xtensa: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 38/62] Input: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 23:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 39/62] ISDN: " Yong Zhang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-30-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 14:26 ` [PATCH 29/62] block: " Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-52-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 17:04 ` [PATCH 51/62] powerpc/ps3: " Geoff Levand
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-21-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 17:12 ` [PATCH 20/62] sparc: " David Miller
2011-09-07 17:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-07 17:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-07 17:51 ` David Miller
2011-09-07 17:57 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-09-07 18:14 ` David Miller
2011-09-07 18:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-08 3:15 ` Yong Zhang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-61-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 17:12 ` [PATCH 60/62] sound: " Mark Brown
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-54-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 17:37 ` [PATCH 53/62] spi: " Grant Likely
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-6-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 20:29 ` [PATCH 05/62] avr32: " Hans-Christian Egtvedt
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-13-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-08 3:18 ` [PATCH 12/62] m64k: " Greg Ungerer
2011-09-09 15:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-09-10 2:01 ` Yong Zhang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-7-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-08 8:12 ` [uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 06/62] Blackfin: " Bob Liu
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-26-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-08 10:40 ` [PATCH 25/62] staging: " Marc Dietich
2011-09-08 13:58 ` Yong Zhang
2011-09-08 14:52 ` Greg KH
2011-09-09 1:12 ` Yong Zhang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-3-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-08 10:53 ` [RFC] [PATCH 02/62] mpu401:snd_mpu401_uart_new(): split semantic of irq_flags Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-08 13:37 ` Yong Zhang
2011-09-08 13:58 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-08 14:45 ` Yong Zhang
2011-09-08 20:27 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-09 1:31 ` Yong Zhang
2011-09-11 15:10 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-12 10:47 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-09-12 13:16 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-12 20:23 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-13 7:12 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-09-13 8:17 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-13 9:24 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-14 8:49 ` Yong Zhang
2011-09-14 9:06 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-09-14 9:15 ` Yong Zhang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-32-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-08 10:55 ` [PATCH 31/62] driver/char: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED Clemens Ladisch
2011-09-08 15:29 ` Corey Minyard
2011-09-08 16:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-62-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-08 21:38 ` [PATCH 61/62] Documentation: irq: Change documents related to IRQF_DISABLED Randy Dunlap
2011-09-09 1:38 ` Yong Zhang
2011-09-09 1:48 ` [UPDATED] " Yong Zhang
2011-09-09 8:25 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2011-09-09 8:41 ` Yong Zhang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-59-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-09 8:01 ` [PATCH 58/62] watchdog: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED Wolfram Sang
2011-09-11 21:37 ` Linus Walleij
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-45-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-09 8:03 ` [PATCH 44/62] mtd: " Wolfram Sang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-48-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-09 8:04 ` [PATCH 47/62] pcmcia: " Wolfram Sang
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-8-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-09 15:10 ` [PATCH 07/62] cris: " Jesper Nilsson
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-37-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-09 7:59 ` [PATCH 36/62] i2c: " Wolfram Sang
2011-09-11 21:36 ` Linus Walleij
2011-09-19 8:44 ` Barry Song
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-34-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 15:02 ` [PATCH 33/62] dmaengine: " Vinod Koul
2011-09-11 21:38 ` Linus Walleij
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-53-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-11 21:38 ` [PATCH 52/62] rtc: " Linus Walleij
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-42-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-15 19:57 ` [PATCH 41/62] mfd: " Samuel Ortiz
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-9-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 15:03 ` [PATCH 08/62] frv: " David Howells
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-16-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 15/62] mn10300: " David Howells
[not found] ` <1315383059-3673-55-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-09 9:49 ` [PATCH 54/62] TTY: " Tobias Klauser
2011-09-22 23:04 ` Greg KH
2011-09-22 23:08 ` Greg KH
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