On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:21:09AM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:20:27AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 2.4 TCP code relies on current being valid in a softirq.
>
> Well, then as long as Linux guarantees that there is always a
> valid 'current task' on a CPU, then I can special-case the
> called-from-interrupt case. The previous kernel stack pointer
> is accessible from another processor register, so I can go in
> there and pull it out and use it to calculate current.
>
> Is it possible to get an interrupt during context switching,
> for example? Or any other window during which there isn't
> a valid current?
You can get interrupts while running in user space and there
isn't a valid current register. So you have to initialise it always
in the interrupt entry. As long as you don't have to support SMP
it is easy (just store current in a global variable and load it from there),
with SMP it is more tricky but still possible, e.g. when you have
some hidden register.
>
> And what the hell does TCP need current for anyway?
For a very hackish user context TCP implementation that probably should
be cleaned up (but it is code freeze etc.etc.blabla.)
-Andi
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