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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"H.PeterA" <"nvin hpa"@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:33:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277379204.1875.957.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100624112040.GD578@basil.fritz.box>

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:20 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > softirq can't sleep either, you need a trampoline anywa
> 
> Not true, when you interrupt ring 3 it can sleep. You just need to make
> sure to run on the right stack and fix up any irq counters.

But that is not softirq. That would be something like what faults do,
but we don't have anything else that does that.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-24 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-24  3:04 [RFC 1/5] Make soft_irq NMI safe Huang Ying
2010-06-24  3:04 ` [RFC 2/5] NMI return notifier Huang Ying
2010-06-24  3:04 ` [RFC 3/5] x86, trigger NMI return notifier soft_irq earlier Huang Ying
2010-06-24  6:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24  3:04 ` [RFC 4/5] x86, Use NMI return notifier in MCE Huang Ying
2010-06-24 10:00   ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24  3:04 ` [RFC 5/5] Use NMI return notifier in perf pending Huang Ying
2010-06-24  6:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24  6:09 ` [RFC 1/5] Make soft_irq NMI safe Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24  6:45   ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24  6:35 ` [RFC][PATCH] irq_work Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24  6:43   ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24  6:47     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24  6:50       ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24  6:58         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24  7:04           ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24  7:19             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24  7:27               ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24  7:32                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 10:27                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 10:30                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 10:52                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 10:58                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:08                           ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 11:10                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:20                               ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 11:33                                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-06-24 11:55                                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 11:57                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 12:02                                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 12:18                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 12:38                                           ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25 10:38                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:42                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:58                                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 12:02                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:23                               ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 11:34                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 12:35                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 13:02                                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 13:20                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-24 13:33                                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 13:42                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 13:46                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 14:01                                             ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 15:41                                               ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-24 16:09                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25  2:12   ` Huang Ying
2010-06-25  7:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25  9:17       ` Huang Ying
2010-06-25  9:23         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-25  9:30           ` Huang Ying
2010-06-25  9:44             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-25  9:30         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 11:58           ` huang ying
2010-06-25  9:08     ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25 18:30   ` [RFC][PATCH] irq_work -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 19:30     ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25 19:39       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 19:49         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 22:29         ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-26  8:36           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-26 10:08             ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-26 10:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 19:47       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-26  1:26     ` huang ying

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