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Subject[PATCH 3/8] irq: Optimize call to softirq on hardirq exit
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Before processing softirqs on hardirq exit, we already
do the check for pending softirqs while hardirqs are
guaranteed to be disabled.

So we can take a shortcut and safely jump to the arch
specific implementation directly.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/softirq.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 26ee727..17c5cd2 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static inline void invoke_softirq(void)
* in its own stack to prevent from any overrun on top
* of a potentially deep task stack.
*/
- do_softirq();
+ do_softirq_own_stack();
} else {
wakeup_softirqd();
}
--
1.8.3.1


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