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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:52:13 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 20:49 +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> And answering an earlier question, this happens only on i386 and only
> with 4K stacks because x86_64 dosn't have a separate softirq stack,
> so the preempt count diring the soft irq is at least IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET.
Which suggests that an initial preempt_count offset of 1 should suffice
to fix this issue and not confuse the softirq tracing, hmm?
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