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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-02-19 11:46:36 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2012-02-20 09:30:18 +0100
commit986cb48c5a4de0085db94d343b4e7dcf54355ec1 (patch)
treea25140de28f6b73dca92600273f589719af090b3 /kernel/tracepoint.c
parentb01543dfe67bb1d191998e90d20534dc354de059 (diff)
x86-32/irq: Don't switch to irq stack for a user-mode irq
If the irq happens in user mode, our kernel stack is empty (apart from the pt_regs themselves, of course), so there's no need or advantage to switch. And it really doesn't save any stack space, quite the reverse: it means that a nested interrupt cannot switch irq stacks. So instead of saving kernel stack space, it actually causes the potential for *more* stack usage. Also simplify the preemption count copy when we do switch stacks: just copy the whole preemption count, rather than just the softirq parts of it. There is no advantage to the partial copy: it is more effort to get a less correct result. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202191139260.10000@i5.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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