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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-05-10 14:32:46 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-05-10 14:32:46 +0100
commit0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0 (patch)
tree4f449d929b5df9e126e839f388ff0fd2b52028a0 /arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S
parent6f1f3d0ab5c3eeea9f04486481c25e9afdfa26c5 (diff)
parentb57f95a38233a2e73b679bea4a5453a1cc2a1cc9 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c Pull in the bdi fixes and ARM platform changes that other outstanding patches depend on.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S b/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S
index 83f1873c6c13..090b9e9ad5e3 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S
@@ -130,7 +130,17 @@ rtrap_xcall:
nop
call trace_hardirqs_on
nop
- wrpr %l4, %pil
+ /* Do not actually set the %pil here. We will do that
+ * below after we clear PSTATE_IE in the %pstate register.
+ * If we re-enable interrupts here, we can recurse down
+ * the hardirq stack potentially endlessly, causing a
+ * stack overflow.
+ *
+ * It is tempting to put this test and trace_hardirqs_on
+ * call at the 'rt_continue' label, but that will not work
+ * as that path hits unconditionally and we do not want to
+ * execute this in NMI return paths, for example.
+ */
#endif
rtrap_no_irq_enable:
andcc %l1, TSTATE_PRIV, %l3