Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:38:41 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] irq: Fix stack overflow due to softirq called on current stack | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> |
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2013/9/18 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>: > Frederic, > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:33:21PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >> >> This series is a proposition to fix the crash reported here: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378330796.4321.50.camel%40pasglop >> And it has the upside to also consolidate a bit the arch do_softirq overriden implementation. > > I tried this series on a ppc64 machine running KVM guests and doing > network traffic, while under memory pressure, and it seems to work > fine. Although the original problem was never completely > deterministically reproducible, the problem did originally show up > with the combination of memory pressure, network traffic and KVM > guests. I pushed the test machine moderately hard for a while and > there was no sign of stack overflow. So: > > Tested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Thanks!
> > Are you going to push this upstream?
Yeah I'll prepare a pull request and let Thomas decide about the fate of these patches.
Thanks!
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