Re: [PATCH] generic/softirq: Disable softirq stacks on PREEMPT_RT

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On 2022-06-13 23:13:49 [+0200], Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> It's probably best to keep this together with the corresponding architecture
> specific changes. I was a bit worried about bisection at first, but
> then realized
> that this is not a problem for mainline since ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT is not
> yet enabled on any architecture.

So where do I put this patch to? If I remember correctly then arm64 is
using this. ARM has its own thing and x86 has this change already.

> How are softirqs called on preempt_rt? Does this result in higher stack usage
> for the normal task stacks again, or are they run in separate threads anyway?

one of:
- ksoftirqd thread.
- in the force-threaded interrupt after the main handler.
- any time after bh-counter hits zero due local_bh_enable().

The last one will cause higher task stacks.

>           Arnd

Sebastian



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