From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:14:00 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: irq: Justify the various softirq stack choices
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~5038^2~1^2~3
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0bed698a334766ed07bacd6cb33f0228003a7f61;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

irq: Justify the various softirq stack choices

For clarity, comment the various stack choices for softirqs
processing, whether we execute them from ksoftirqd or
local_irq_enable() calls.

Their use on irq_exit() is already commented.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 9f8092b82a94..2b4328ea769f 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -170,8 +170,13 @@ static inline void _local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip)
  	 */
 	sub_preempt_count(SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET - 1);
 
-	if (unlikely(!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending()))
+	if (unlikely(!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending())) {
+		/*
+		 * Run softirq if any pending. And do it in its own stack
+		 * as we may be calling this deep in a task call stack already.
+		 */
 		do_softirq();
+	}
 
 	dec_preempt_count();
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
@@ -769,6 +774,10 @@ static void run_ksoftirqd(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	local_irq_disable();
 	if (local_softirq_pending()) {
+		/*
+		 * We can safely run softirq on inline stack, as we are not deep
+		 * in the task stack here.
+		 */
 		__do_softirq();
 		rcu_note_context_switch(cpu);
 		local_irq_enable();