olve this, we don't save the old stack pointer on rbp anymore but we save it to a scratch register that we push on the new stack and that we pop back later on irq return. This preserves the whole frame chain without spurious return addresses in the middle and drops the need for the horrid fixup_bp_irq_link() workaround. And finally irqs that interrupt softirq are sanely unwinded. Before: 99.81% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_pending_event | --- perf_pending_event irq_work_run smp_irq_work_interrupt irq_work_interrupt | |--41.60%-- __read | | | |--99.90%-- create_worker | | bench_sched_messaging | | cmd_bench | | run_builtin | | main | | __libc_start_main | --0.10%-- [...] After: 1.64% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_pending_event | --- perf_pending_event irq_work_run smp_irq_work_interrupt irq_work_interrupt | |--95.00%-- arch_irq_work_raise | irq_work_queue | __perf_event_overflow | perf_swevent_overflow | perf_swevent_event | perf_tp_event | perf_trace_softirq | __do_softirq | call_softirq | do_softirq | irq_exit | | | |--73.68%-- smp_apic_timer_interrupt | | apic_timer_interrupt | | | | | |--96.43%-- amd_e400_idle | | | cpu_idle | | | start_secondary Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jan Beulich :77