Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:08:23 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near overflowing v2 |
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near overflowing v2 > > > > Interrupts can always nest when they don't run with IRQF_DISABLED. > > > > When a lot of interrupts hit the same vector on the same > > CPU nested interrupts can overflow the irq stack and cause hangs.
That's utter nonsense. An interrupt storm on the same vector does not cause irq nesting. The irq code prevents reentering a handler and in case of MSI-X it just disables the IRQ when it comes again while the first irq on that vector is still in progress. So the maximum nesting is two up to handle_edge_irq() where it disables the IRQ and returns right away.
Thanks,
tglx
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