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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-20 07:48:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-20 07:48:37 (GMT) |
| commit | 28a1f533ae8606020238b840b82ae70a3f87609e (patch) | |
| tree | aba93c055c8e2cd36b05846ed38173daba44ce53 /arch/sparc | |
| parent | baa06775e224e9f74e5c2de894c95cd49678beff (diff) | |
| download | linux-28a1f533ae8606020238b840b82ae70a3f87609e.tar.xz | |
sparc64: Fix hardirq tracing in trap return path.
We can overflow the hardirq stack if we set the %pil here
so early, just let the normal control flow do it.
This is fine as we are allowed to do the actual IRQ enable
at any point after we call trace_hardirqs_on.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S b/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S index 83f1873..090b9e9 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S @@ -130,7 +130,17 @@ rtrap_xcall: nop call trace_hardirqs_on nop - wrpr %l4, %pil + /* Do not actually set the %pil here. We will do that + * below after we clear PSTATE_IE in the %pstate register. + * If we re-enable interrupts here, we can recurse down + * the hardirq stack potentially endlessly, causing a + * stack overflow. + * + * It is tempting to put this test and trace_hardirqs_on + * call at the 'rt_continue' label, but that will not work + * as that path hits unconditionally and we do not want to + * execute this in NMI return paths, for example. + */ #endif rtrap_no_irq_enable: andcc %l1, TSTATE_PRIV, %l3 |