Re: [patch 15/14] x86/dumpstack/64: Speedup in_exception_stack()

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 05:48:56PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > With the above "(stk <= begin || stk >= end)" check, removing the loop
> > becomes not all that important since exception stack dumps are quite
> > rare and not performance sensitive.  With all the macros this code
> > becomes a little more obtuse, so I'm not sure whether removal of the
> > loop is a net positive.
> 
> What about perf? It's NMI context and probably starts from there. Peter?

I believe perf unwinds starting from the regs from the context which was
interrupted by the NMI.

-- 
Josh