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SubjectRe: [RFC patch 5/5] genirq: make irq threading robust
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On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 23:02 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> To make sure that a crashed irq thread does not cause more trouble
> when the irq code tries to wake up a gone thread or the device code
> calling free_irq and trying to kthread_stop the dead thread, we plug a
> pointer to irqaction into task_struct, which is evaluated in
> do_exit(). When the thread crashes the do_exit code marks the thread
> as DIED in irqaction->flags to prevent further wakeups from the
> interrupt handler code.

> @@ -1301,6 +1301,7 @@ struct task_struct {
> int latency_record_count;
> struct latency_record latency_record[LT_SAVECOUNT];
> #endif
> + struct irqaction *irqaction;
> };

Is that going to fly? For the vast majority of task_structs this is now
a wasted 4/8 bytes that won't be used.

Jon.



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