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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-09-24 07:17:21 +0200
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-09-25 06:15:51 +0200
commitcbc9565ee82694dec31d8137dec975b83175183b (patch)
tree7740d7f8f0372e80c067ee2e867bb69ab7b15eec /arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
parentpowerpc/irq: Run softirqs off the top of the irq stack (diff)
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powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on ppc64
We've been keeping that field in thread_struct for a while, it contains the "limit" of the current stack pointer and is meant to be used for detecting stack overflows. It has a few problems however: - First, it was never actually *used* on 64-bit. Set and updated but not actually exploited - When switching stack to/from irq and softirq stacks, it's update is racy unless we hard disable interrupts, which is costly. This is fine on 32-bit as we don't soft-disable there but not on 64-bit. Thus rather than fixing 2 in order to implement 1 in some hypothetical future, let's remove the code completely from 64-bit. In order to avoid a clutter of ifdef's, we remove the updates from C code completely during interrupt stack switching, and instead maintain it from the asm helper that is used to do the stack switching in the first place. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
index 7da3882a3622..2b0ad9845363 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
@@ -36,25 +36,41 @@
.text
+/*
+ * We store the saved ksp_limit in the unused part
+ * of the STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
+ */
_GLOBAL(call_do_softirq)
mflr r0
stw r0,4(r1)
+ lwz r10,THREAD+KSP_LIMIT(r2)
+ addi r11,r3,THREAD_INFO_GAP
stwu r1,THREAD_SIZE-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
mr r1,r3
+ stw r10,8(r1)
+ stw r11,THREAD+KSP_LIMIT(r2)
bl __do_softirq
+ lwz r10,8(r1)
lwz r1,0(r1)
lwz r0,4(r1)
+ stw r10,THREAD+KSP_LIMIT(r2)
mtlr r0
blr
_GLOBAL(call_do_irq)
mflr r0
stw r0,4(r1)
+ lwz r10,THREAD+KSP_LIMIT(r2)
+ addi r11,r3,THREAD_INFO_GAP
stwu r1,THREAD_SIZE-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r4)
mr r1,r4
+ stw r10,8(r1)
+ stw r11,THREAD+KSP_LIMIT(r2)
bl __do_irq
+ lwz r10,8(r1)
lwz r1,0(r1)
lwz r0,4(r1)
+ stw r10,THREAD+KSP_LIMIT(r2)
mtlr r0
blr