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author | Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | 2013-10-17 17:04:47 +0300 |
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committer | Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | 2013-10-17 17:41:49 +0300 |
commit | 13acfd5715144518232d8e29acf7c76ef1b089d8 (patch) | |
tree | 093c4311a737210bbdd3d1919f8193cb5f017241 /kernel/softirq.c | |
parent | d570142674890fe10b3d7d86aa105e3dfce1ddfa (diff) | |
parent | 34ec4de42be5006abdd8d0c08b306ffaa64d0d5d (diff) | |
download | linux-13acfd5715144518232d8e29acf7c76ef1b089d8.tar.bz2 |
Powerpc KVM work is based on a commit after rc4.
Merging master into next to satisfy the dependencies.
Conflicts:
arch/arm/kvm/reset.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/softirq.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index 53cc09ceb0b8..d7d498d8cc4f 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -328,10 +328,19 @@ void irq_enter(void) static inline void invoke_softirq(void) { - if (!force_irqthreads) - __do_softirq(); - else + if (!force_irqthreads) { + /* + * We can safely execute softirq on the current stack if + * it is the irq stack, because it should be near empty + * at this stage. But we have no way to know if the arch + * calls irq_exit() on the irq stack. So call softirq + * in its own stack to prevent from any overrun on top + * of a potentially deep task stack. + */ + do_softirq(); + } else { wakeup_softirqd(); + } } static inline void tick_irq_exit(void) |