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Message-ID: <1379824861.24090.12.camel@pasglop>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:41:01 +1000
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@....ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 14:39 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> How do you do your per-cpu on x86 ? On powerpc we struggle because we
> try to dedicate a register (r13) to this PACA (the per-cpu offset hangs
> off it), but we constantly run into issues where gcc copies r13 to
> another register and then indexes off that, even accross
> preempt_enable/disable sections, or worst such as saving/restoring from
> the stack. We can't seem to get the compiler to treat it appropriately
> as volatile.
Also, do you have a half-decent way of getting to per-cpu from asm ?
Cheers,
Ben.
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