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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-26 00:06:51 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-04-13 16:36:40 +0200
commite58aa3d2d0cc01ad8d6f7f640a0670433f794922 (patch)
tree6ed92d753a48e1fe9978f0958d1c09c8aae92fae /include/linux/irq.h
parentae731f8d0785ccd3380f511bae888933b6562e45 (diff)
genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled
Running interrupt handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows. That has been observed with multiqueue NICs delivering all their interrupts to a single core. We might band aid that somehow by checking the interrupt stacks, but the real safe fix is to run the irq handlers with interrupts disabled. Drivers for whacky hardware still can reenable them in the handler itself, if the need arises. (They do already due to lockdep) The risk of doing this is rather low: - lockdep already enforces this - CONFIG_NOHZ has shaken out the drivers which relied on jiffies updates - time keeping is not longer sensitive to the timer interrupt being delayed Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> LKML-Reference: <20100326000405.758579387@linutronix.de>
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