From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:18:36 +0000 (+0200) Subject: x86: Tell about irq stack coverage X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.13/fixes-for-merge-window-take2~43^2~1^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a2cd11f7d58a3a5390ee4cbcd8cff634a4d59173;p=pandora-kernel.git x86: Tell about irq stack coverage x86-64 runs irq_exit() under the irq stack. So it can afford to run softirqs in hardirq exit without the need to switch the stacks. The hardirq stack is good enough for that. Now x86-64 runs softirqs in the hardirq stack anyway, so what we mostly skip is some needless per cpu refcounting updates there. x86-32 is not concerned because it only runs the irq handler on the irq stack. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: James Hogan Cc: James E.J. Bottomley Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Andrew Morton --- Reading git-diff-tree failed