RE: [PATCH 0/8] git pull request for tip/tracing/core

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Luck, Tony wrote:

> > The bits in question is really the number of possible nested interrupts
> > that can happen. We take the paranoid approach that we can have a max
> > nesting of NR_IRQS. Perhaps this can be changed, and just do a max of
> > 1<<10 nesting? And have a big warn on if it happens to be bigger, or fall
> > to another counter if it is bigger.
> >
> > 1000 nested IRQs seems a bit extreme :-/
> 
> Ah, I see.  Then the answer is very different.  The number of nested
> interrupts possible on a cpu is limited by the number of priority
> classes for interrupts (See Table 5-8 on page 2:112 of the Itanium
> software developers manual).  Effectively the max nesting depth is
> 16.
> 
> 1000 nested interrupts would be certain to run us out of stack.

Ingo,

Do you think this is a good assumption to make, that no arch will have 
over 1<<10 nested interrupts. We can add a WARN_ON if it happens. Then we 
can make all archs have a 10 bit offset. Smaller may also be sufficient.

-- Steve

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