On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:31:30AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > But that happens before do_IRQ is called, so what is the do_IRQ call > > chain doing on this stack given that we've already supposed to have > > switched to the interrupt stack before do_IRQ is called? > > Not sure I understand the question. > > The pt_regs are on the original stack (but they are quite small), all the rest It's ~180 bytes, so it's not really that small. > is on the new stack. ISTs are not used for interrupts, only for > some special exceptions. IST = ??? > do_IRQ doesn't switch any stacks on 64bit. No, but it appears that it's caller does: /* 0(%rsp): ~(interrupt number) */ .macro interrupt func /* reserve pt_regs for scratch regs and rbp */ subq $ORIG_RAX-RBP, %rsp CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET ORIG_RAX-RBP SAVE_ARGS_IRQ call \func .endm and the SAVE_ARGS_IRQ macro switches to the per cpu interrupt stack. The only caller does this: common_interrupt: XCPT_FRAME addq $-0x80,(%rsp) /* Adjust vector to [-256,-1] range */ interrupt do_IRQ So, why do we get this: Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff81067097>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8106f6da>] ? __do_softirq+0x11a/0x1d0 Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff81067186>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8100c2cc>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8100dfcf>] ? handle_irq+0x8f/0xa0 Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff814e310c>] ? do_IRQ+0x6c/0xf0 Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8100bad3>] ? ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11 Dec 6 20:27:55 localhost kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff8115b80f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xbf/0x2b0 at the top of the stack frame? Is the stack unwinder walking back across the interrupt stack to the previous task stack? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs