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SubjectRe: [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix
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On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 07:45 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> What I *can* do that would help I suppose would be to switch to the irq
> stack before irq_enter/exit which would at least mean that softirq would
> run from the top of the irq stack which is better than the current
> situation.
>
> I'm fact I'll whip up a quick fix see if that might be enough of a band
> aid for RHEL7.

OK I've done that, it seems to work so far. Heads up guys: i386 and sparc
at least seem to need the same treatment. I haven't looked at others except
ARM which doesn't seem to have irq stacks to begin with.

We can also instead apply Fred's series to put back in the switch to the
softirq stack since this is actually a regression , but then, arguably,
making sure irq_exit() is called off the irq stack is better and means
we do one instead of two stack switches.

Fred: Maybe revert partially under an arch #define/Kconfig so we can get
the best of both worlds ?

Cheers,
Ben.




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