On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 13:23 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So how are we going to solve this? Naively I'd think that
> current_thread_info() is short for task_thread_info(current), and thus
> the platforms for where this isn't true are broken.
>
> I mean, what use is the thread_info not of a thread?
>
> Comments?
Thomas just hit a bug in the platform code of said platform (powerpc
heh ?) :-)
We do it right for hard IRQs and for some reason never did it right for
softirqs.
The code is like this for the former:
static inline void handle_one_irq(unsigned int irq)
{
.../...
call_handle_irq(irq, desc, irqtp, desc->handle_irq);
current->thread.ksp_limit = saved_sp_limit;
irqtp->task = NULL;
/* Set any flag that may have been set on the
* alternate stack
*/
if (irqtp->flags)
set_bits(irqtp->flags, &curtp->flags);
}
So what we need, I suppose is to add those two last line to
do_softirq_onstack() as well.
Now indeed i386 needs a similar treatment on both hard and soft
irqs (along with getting rid of that stupid duplication of
call_on_stack in there, I don't think it's worth making the code
horrible like that to save one clobber and PeterZ reckons we can
probably avoid it using always_inline anyways).
I'll let you guys sort i386 out tho, I'll look at fixing ppc tomorrow :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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