1. 31 Mar, 2010 1 commit
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      genirq: Force MSI irq handlers to run with interrupts disabled · 753649db
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      Network folks reported that directing all MSI-X vectors of their multi
      queue NICs to a single core can cause interrupt stack overflows when
      enough interrupts fire at the same time.
      
      This is caused by the fact that we run interrupt handlers by default
      with interrupts enabled unless the driver reuqests the interrupt with
      the IRQF_DISABLED set. The NIC handlers do not set this flag, so
      simultaneous interrupts can nest unlimited and cause the stack
      overflow.
      
      The only safe counter measure is to run the interrupt handlers with
      interrupts disabled. We can't switch to this mode in general right
      now, but it is safe to do so for MSI interrupts.
      
      Force IRQF_DISABLED for MSI interrupt handlers.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
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