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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-10-09 12:36:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-10-09 12:36:13 +0200 |
| commit | 37bf06375c90a42fe07b9bebdb07bc316ae5a0ce (patch) | |
| tree | de572dd6d3955b0725001776a7b03796f99e1e8e /kernel/softirq.c | |
| parent | 6bfa687c19b7ab8adee03f0d43c197c2945dd869 (diff) | |
| parent | d0e639c9e06d44e713170031fe05fb60ebe680af (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.12-rc4' into sched/core
Merge Linux v3.12-rc4 to fix a conflict and also to refresh the tree
before applying more scheduler patches.
Conflicts:
arch/avr32/include/asm/Kbuild
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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 3e88612fc87e..dcab1d3fb53d 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) |