Re: [PATCH v3 31/51] x86/dumpstack: allow preemption in show_stack_log_lvl() and dump_trace()

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Sun Aug 14 2016 - 04:48:11 EST


On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> show_stack_log_lvl() and dump_trace() are already preemption safe:
>
> - If they're running in interrupt context, preemption is already
> disabled and the percpu irq stack pointers can be trusted.

I agree with the patch, but I have a minor nitpick about the
description. The "irq stack" is an actual thing, but the relevant
stacks here aren't just the irq stack: they're the irq stack, the IST
stacks (on 64-bit), and the NMI stack (on 32-bit). The same logic
applies, though.

--Andy