Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: Disable IST stacks for debug/int 3/stackfault for PREEMPT_RT"

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:45:47AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 19:18 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: 
> > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 02:55:48PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > where do I start. Let me explain what is going on here. The code
> > > sequence
> > 
> > Yes the IST stacks are needed for correctness, even in more cases than
> > the example below. You cannot just disable them, just because you don't
> > like them.
> 
> You had a better reason than dislike.

Ah true it was me. Good point. I forgot all about that.

Probably it needs some form of the NMI style paranoid_* switch.

-Andi
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