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The recursion protection for hard interrupt stacks is an unsigned int per CPU variable initialized to -1 named __irq_count. The irq stack switching is only done when the variable is -1, which creates worse code than just checking for 0. When the stack switching happens it uses this_cpu_add/sub(1), but there is no reason to do so. It simply can use straight writes. This is a historical leftover from the low level ASM code which used inc and jz to make a decision. Rename it to hardirq_stack_inuse, make it a bool and use plain stores. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210002512.228830141@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.