Large stack usage in fs code (especially for PPC64)

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Steven Rostedt writes:
> 
> > Here's my stack after boot up with CONFIG_IRQSTACKS set. Seems that 
> > softirqs still use the same stack as the process.
> 
> They shouldn't.  I don't see do_softirq in the trace, though.  Which
> functions did you think would be run in a softirq?  It looks to me
> like the deepest 10 or so functions are called at hard irq level,
> within hrtimer_interrupt called from timer_interrupt.
> 
> > root at electra ~> cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace 
> >         Depth   Size      Location    (59 entries)
> >         -----   ----      --------
> >   0)    12384     192   ftrace_call+0x4/0x14
> >   1)    12192     128   .sched_clock+0x20/0x60
> >   2)    12064     128   .sched_clock_cpu+0x34/0x50
> >   3)    11936     144   .cpu_clock+0x3c/0xa0
> >   4)    11792     144   .get_timestamp+0x2c/0x50
> >   5)    11648     144   .__touch_softlockup_watchdog+0x3c/0x60
> >   6)    11504     192   .softlockup_tick+0xe4/0x220
> >   7)    11312     128   .run_local_timers+0x34/0x50
> >   8)    11184     160   .update_process_times+0x44/0xb0
> >   9)    11024     176   .tick_sched_timer+0x8c/0x120
> >  10)    10848     160   .__run_hrtimer+0xd8/0x130
> >  11)    10688     240   .hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x220
> >  12)    10448     160   .timer_interrupt+0xcc/0x110
> >  13)    10288      96   decrementer_common+0xe0/0x100

Ah, you are right. I thought I saw softirq code in there, but must have 
been seeing things. I need to get my eyesight checked. The other day I 
totally botch a hand in cards because I thought I had 3 Aces of diamonds 
when I really only had 2 Aces of diamonds and a Ace of hearts.

-- Steve