From: Alexnader Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Why do we reserve 8 bytes on top of the boot time stack?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:00:42 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160129130042.GA12414@localhost> (raw)
Hello,
We reserve top 8 bytes of the boot stack in the arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:
GLOBAL(stack_start)
.quad init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-8
So, the question is in subject. Why? I've found definition of the
TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING macro arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h,
but it is zero for the x86_64.
Thank you.
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