From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 11:42:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EBA7AE2.9020401@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.53.0305080729410.16638@chaos
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> In protected mode, the kernel stack. And, regardless of implimentation
> details, there can only be one. It's the one whos stack-selector
> is being used by the CPU. So, in the case of Linux, with multiple
> kernel stacks (!?????), one for each process, whatever process is
> running in kernel mode (current) has it's SS active. It's the
> one that gets hit with the interrupt.
That's kinda what I figured. I just didn't know if there was some
(hardware) provision to do otherwise, or if there was some reason why
the interrupt handler might immediately switch stacks, etc.
That is to say, some CPUs might have provision for a stack pointer to be
associated with each interrupt vector.
Secondly, given so many unknowns about what might already be on the
current kernel stack, it might be generally safer to move the processor
state (saved by the CPU on interrupt) from the current stack to some
"interrupt stack" which may have a more predictable amount of free
space. (Then again, if the CPU is currently executing in user space,
the kernel stack is probably completely empty.)
I realize that, however small, that would be an undesirable amount of
overhead, but it occurs to me that someone might do that anyhow for
stability reasons. I could imagine some interrupts needing more than a
trivial amount of stack space. I'm assuming, for instance, that things
like the IDE block driver would need to do things like PIO a sector
to/from an old CDROM drive, look up the next scheduled I/O operation to
perform, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-08 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-07 13:20 top stack (l)users for 2.5.69 Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 13:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 13:56 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 14:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 17:13 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-05-07 17:40 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:12 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 18:28 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:44 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 18:46 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 19:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 19:42 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 20:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 20:23 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 20:42 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 9:06 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-08 11:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-08 12:00 ` Helge Hafting
2003-05-08 15:42 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-05-09 8:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-09 16:50 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 16:47 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 18:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 19:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:39 ` Hua Zhong
2003-05-07 21:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-08 10:29 ` David Howells
2003-05-07 17:55 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 16:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-07 19:01 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-07 20:06 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 20:14 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 8:41 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-08 16:51 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 22:12 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 21:30 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-05-07 21:54 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 22:01 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-05-07 14:33 ` Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07 14:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 15:04 ` Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07 16:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-08 15:36 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-08 18:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 15:23 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 15:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 16:49 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 17:18 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 17:40 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 18:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:45 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 18:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 17:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 17:47 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 14:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 19:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 20:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 21:27 ` Marcus Alanen
2003-05-07 21:27 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-08 15:10 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-08 17:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 19:38 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-08 14:08 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-08 18:04 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-05-08 19:05 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 21:00 ` Jonathan Lundell
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