Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] arm64: support HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK

[Qi Zheng]

On 2022/7/8 04:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 5:00 PM Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2022/7/7 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 3:38 PM Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 2022/7/7 20:49, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >
> > > -asmlinkage void noinstr el1h_64_fiq_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > +asmlinkage void noinstr el1h_64_irq_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > +{
> > > +       if (on_thread_stack())
> > > +               call_on_irq_stack(regs, el1_irq);
> >
> > IMO, this can't work. Because el1_interrupt() will invoke
> > arm64_preempt_schedule_irq(), which will cause scheduling on the
> > IRQ stack.
>
> Ah, too bad. I spent some more time looking for a simpler approach,
> but couldn't find one I'm happy with. One idea might be to have
> callback functions for each combinations of irq/fiq with irq/pnmi
> to avoid the nested callback pointers. Not sure if that helps.

Maybe nested callback pointers are not always a wild beast. ;)
This method does not change much, and we can also conveniently stuff
all kinds of things in do_handler() that we want to run on the IRQ
stack in addition to the handler().

Thanks,
Qi

>         Arnd

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Thanks,
Qi