[PATCH 3/3] irq: Comment on the use of inline stack for ksoftirqd

[Frederic Weisbecker]

Ksoftirqd shouldn't need softirq stack since it's executing
in a kernel thread with a callstack that is only beginning at
this stage.

Lets comment about that for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/softirq.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 8c8f08b..1b0f48e 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -759,6 +759,10 @@ static void run_ksoftirqd(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	local_irq_disable();
 	if (local_softirq_pending()) {
+		/*
+		 * Execute softirq on inline stack, as we are not deep in
+		 * the task stack here.
+		 */
 		__do_softirq();
 		rcu_note_context_switch(cpu);
 		local_irq_enable();
-- 
1.8.3.1

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