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irq: Justify the various softirq stack choices

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For clarity, comment the various stack choices for softirqs
processing, whether we execute them from ksoftirqd or
local_irq_enable() calls.

Their use on irq_exit() is already commented.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker 2013-09-05 16:14:00 +02:00
parent 5d60d3e7c0
commit 0bed698a33
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@ -170,8 +170,13 @@ static inline void _local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip)
*/
sub_preempt_count(SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET - 1);
if (unlikely(!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending()))
if (unlikely(!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending())) {
/*
* Run softirq if any pending. And do it in its own stack
* as we may be calling this deep in a task call stack already.
*/
do_softirq();
}
dec_preempt_count();
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
@ -769,6 +774,10 @@ static void run_ksoftirqd(unsigned int cpu)
{
local_irq_disable();
if (local_softirq_pending()) {
/*
* We can safely run softirq on inline stack, as we are not deep
* in the task stack here.
*/
__do_softirq();
rcu_note_context_switch(cpu);
local_irq_enable();