Re: [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Sep 21 2013 - 22:04:10 EST


On 09/21/2013 02:45 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> I really don't like the "larger" irq stack ... probably because I can't
> make it work easily :-) See my previous comment about how we get to
> thread_info on ppc.
>

For the record, I intend to remove thread_info from the stack on x86 and
instead merge it with task_struct as a single structure pointed to with
a percpu variable.

-hpa


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