On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 09:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > > > This is the "band aid" discussed so far for the stack overflow > > problem for powerpc. > > I don't think it's a "band-aid" in any way, except perhaps in the > sense that there are certainly other things we can also do in this > series (ie I liked Frederic's cleanups etc).
Ah yes, I thought of it as a band-aid in the sense that a better approach would be to switch to the irq stack earlier like x86_64 does but that would be a lot more invasive. Definitely something I would look into if I was to tackle changing how we do per-cpu and the PACA though. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
