From a2cd11f7d58a3a5390ee4cbcd8cff634a4d59173 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:18:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index ee2fb9d37745..99eb1cc30dac 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ config X86 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION select RTC_LIB select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER def_bool y -- 2.11.0