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From: james.morse@arm•com (James Morse)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v8 4/4] arm64: switch to irq_stack during softirq
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 14:39:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5661A5B0.3080504@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204140119.GL10123@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

Hi Catalin,

On 04/12/15 14:01, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:02:28AM +0000, James Morse wrote:
>> +ENTRY(__do_softirq_on_irqstack)
>> +	push	x19, lr
>> +	push	x25, x26
>> +
>> +	irq_stack_entry lr
>> +
>> +	/* irq_stack_entry leaves irq_count in x25 */
>> +	ldr	x1, [x25]
>> +	add	x1, x1, #1
>> +	str	x1, [x25]
>> +
>> +	bl	__do_softirq
>> +
>> +	ldr	x1, [x25]
>> +	sub	x1, x1, #1
>> +	str	x1, [x25]
>> +
>> +	irq_stack_exit
>> +
>> +	pop x25, x26
>> +	pop x19, lr
>> +	ret
>> +ENDPROC(__do_softirq_on_irqstack)
> 
> I was thinking of doing do_softirq_own_stack() entirely in assembly
> without the need to check for on_irq_stack() check in C, just a test of
> the irq_count value.

I tried that, but couldn't get it to work - maybe I'm missing a trick:

There are at least two ways into do_softirq_own_stack():
el1_irq() -> __irq_exit() -> do_softirq_own_stack(),
as well as:
cpu_switch_to(ksoftirqd) -> do_softirq_own_stack()

In both cases irq_count == 0 because do_softirq_own_stack() is where we
update irq_count [0]. I can only see two ways to tell them apart,
increment irq_count in el1_irq(), (which we don't like), or have that
bounds checking.


(We could increase hardirq_count() in el?_irq(), which would mean
in_irq()/in_interrupt() always returns true when on the irq_stack, which
would stop softirqs being processed here... but that is a fairly
significant change in behaviour.)


Thanks,

James

[0] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2041877

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 11:02 [PATCH v8 0/4] arm64: Add support for IRQ stack James Morse
2015-12-04 11:02 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] arm64: Store struct task_info in sp_el0 James Morse
2015-12-04 13:27   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-04 14:55     ` James Morse
2015-12-04 16:18       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-06 13:15     ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-04 11:02 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] arm64: Modify stack trace and dump for use with irq_stack James Morse
2015-12-04 12:21   ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-04 14:31   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-04 11:02 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] arm64: Add do_softirq_own_stack() and enable irq_stacks James Morse
2015-12-04 13:46   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-04 13:47     ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-07 22:48   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-08 11:43     ` Will Deacon
2015-12-08 16:02       ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-08 17:23         ` James Morse
2015-12-08 17:27           ` Will Deacon
2015-12-08 23:13           ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-09  9:47           ` James Morse
2015-12-09 11:38             ` Will Deacon
2015-12-09 13:45   ` Will Deacon
2015-12-09 14:36     ` James Morse
2015-12-04 11:02 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] arm64: switch to irq_stack during softirq James Morse
2015-12-04 14:01   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-04 14:39     ` James Morse [this message]
2015-12-04 18:40       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-08 10:29         ` James Morse
2015-12-06 13:51       ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-04 12:17 ` [PATCH v8 0/4] arm64: Add support for IRQ stack Jungseok Lee
2015-12-06 13:56   ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-04 13:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-06 13:33   ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-10 10:22 ` [PATCH v8 5/4] arm64: Fix off-by-one in stack tracing when stepping off irq stack James Morse
2015-12-10 10:22   ` [PATCH v8 6/4] arm64: Add this_cpu_ptr() assembler macro for use in entry.S James Morse
2015-12-10 10:22   ` [PATCH v8 7/4] arm64: when walking onto the task stack, check sp & fp are in current->stack James Morse
2015-12-10 10:22   ` [PATCH v8 8/4] arm64: don't call C code with el0's fp register James Morse
2015-12-10 14:03   ` [PATCH v8 5/4] arm64: Fix off-by-one in stack tracing when stepping off irq stack Jungseok Lee
2015-12-15 11:21 ` [PATCH v8 9/4] arm64: reduce stack use in irq_handler James Morse
2015-12-18 16:01 ` [PATCH v8 9/4] arm64: remove irq_count and do_softirq_own_stack() James Morse
2015-12-20 11:07   ` Jungseok Lee
2015-12-21 11:30     ` Will Deacon
2015-12-21 12:19       ` James Morse
2015-12-21 12:21         ` Will Deacon
2015-12-21 14:06           ` Jungseok Lee

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