1. 11 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      uml: iRQ stacks · c14b8494
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Add a separate IRQ stack.  This differs from i386 in having the entire
      interrupt run on a separate stack rather than starting on the normal kernel
      stack and switching over once some preparation has been done.  The underlying
      mechanism, is of course, sigaltstack.
      
      Another difference is that interrupts that happen in userspace are handled on
      the normal kernel stack.  These cause a wait wakeup instead of a signal
      delivery so there is no point in trying to switch stacks for these.  There's
      no other stuff on the stack, so there is no extra stack consumption.
      
      This quirk makes it possible to have the entire interrupt run on a separate
      stack - process preemption (and calls to schedule()) happens on a normal
      kernel stack.  If we enable CONFIG_PREEMPT, this will need to be rethought.
      
      The IRQ stack for CPU 0 is declared in the same way as the initial kernel
      stack.  IRQ stacks for other CPUs will be allocated dynamically.
      
      An extra field was added to the thread_info structure.  When the active
      thread_info is copied to the IRQ stack, the real_thread field points back to
      the original stack.  This makes it easy to tell where to copy the thread_info
      struct back to when the interrupt is finished.  It also serves as a marker of
      a nested interrupt.  It is NULL for the first interrupt on the stack, and
      non-NULL for any nested interrupts.
      
      Care is taken to behave correctly if a second interrupt comes in when the
      thread_info structure is being set up or taken down.  I could just disable
      interrupts here, but I don't feel like giving up any of the performance gained
      by not flipping signals on and off.
      
      If an interrupt comes in during these critical periods, the handler can't run
      because it has no idea what shape the stack is in.  So, it sets a bit for its
      signal in a global mask and returns.  The outer handler will deal with this
      signal itself.
      
      Atomicity is had with xchg.  A nested interrupt that needs to bail out will
      xchg its signal mask into pending_mask and repeat in case yet another
      interrupt hit at the same time, until the mask stabilizes.
      
      The outermost interrupt will set up the thread_info and xchg a zero into
      pending_mask when it is done.  At this point, nested interrupts will look at
      ->real_thread and see that no setup needs to be done.  They can just continue
      normally.
      
      Similar care needs to be taken when exiting the outer handler.  If another
      interrupt comes in while it is copying the thread_info, it will drop a bit
      into pending_mask.  The outer handler will check this and if it is non-zero,
      will loop, set up the stack again, and handle the interrupt.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c14b8494
  2. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] uml: Move signal handlers to arch code · 4b84c69b
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Have most signals go through an arch-provided handler which recovers the
      sigcontext and then calls a generic handler.  This replaces the
      ARCH_GET_SIGCONTEXT macro, which was somewhat fragile.  On x86_64, recovering
      %rdx (which holds the sigcontext pointer) must be the first thing that
      happens.  sig_handler duly invokes that first, but there is no guarantee that
      I can see that instructions won't be reordered such that %rdx is used before
      that.  Having the arch provide the handler seems much more robust.
      
      Some signals in some parts of UML require their own handlers - these places
      don't call set_handler any more.  They call sigaction or signal themselves.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4b84c69b