From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86 <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/44] x86/asm/head: rename 'stack_start' -> 'initial_stack'
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:01:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160805160157.7blwronmj4tecrud@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACbG309-9_pVraDYNTKczATMMLSdSjQ_Jyvb=pFkabuos9pQrg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:28:39AM -0500, Nilay Vaish wrote:
> On 4 August 2016 at 17:21, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The 'stack_start' variable is similar in usage to 'initial_code' and
> > 'initial_gs': they're all stored in head_64.S and they're all updated by
> > SMP and ACPI suspend before starting a CPU.
> >
> > Rename it to 'initial_stack' to be consistent with the others.
> >
>
> May be change the following line as well:
>
> ./arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:69: * Setup stack for verify_cpu().
> "-8" because stack_start is defined
Ah, yeah, I missed that one.
And also, now that I see that comment, and the line below it:
leaq (__end_init_task - 8)(%rip), %rsp
The 8 should be changed to SIZEOF_PTREGS in a later patch
("x86/asm/head: standardize the end of the stack for idle tasks").
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-05 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 22:21 [PATCH v2 00/44] x86/dumpstack: rewrite x86 stack dump code Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:21 ` [PATCH v2 01/44] x86/dumpstack: remove show_trace() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:21 ` [PATCH v2 02/44] x86/asm/head: remove unused init_rsp variable Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:21 ` [PATCH v2 03/44] x86/asm/head: rename 'stack_start' -> 'initial_stack' Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-05 15:28 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-08-05 16:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2016-08-06 5:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-06 13:13 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-06 13:15 ` Brian Gerst
2016-08-06 13:38 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 04/44] x86/asm/head: use a common function for starting CPUs Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-05 15:41 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-08-05 16:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 05/44] x86/dumpstack: make printk_stack_address() more generally useful Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 06/44] x86/dumpstack: add IRQ_USABLE_STACK_SIZE define Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 07/44] x86/dumpstack: remove extra brackets around "<EOE>" Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 08/44] x86/dumpstack: fix irq stack bounds calculation in show_stack_log_lvl() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 09/44] x86/dumpstack: fix x86_32 kernel_stack_pointer() previous stack access Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 10/44] x86/dumpstack: add get_stack_pointer() and get_frame_pointer() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 11/44] x86/dumpstack: remove unnecessary stack pointer arguments Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 12/44] x86: move _stext marker to before head code Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 13/44] x86/asm/head: remove useless zeroed word Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-05 16:13 ` Brian Gerst
2016-08-05 16:23 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 14/44] x86/asm/head: put real return address on idle task stack Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 15/44] perf/x86: check perf_callchain_store() error Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 16/44] oprofile/x86: add regs->ip to oprofile trace Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 17/44] proc: fix return address printk conversion specifer in /proc/<pid>/stack Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 18/44] ftrace: remove CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST from config Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 19/44] ftrace: only allocate the ret_stack 'fp' field when needed Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 20/44] ftrace: add return address pointer to ftrace_ret_stack Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 21/44] ftrace: add ftrace_graph_ret_addr() stack unwinding helpers Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 22/44] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: convert dump_trace() callbacks to use ftrace_graph_ret_addr() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 23/44] ftrace/x86: implement HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 24/44] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: mark function graph handler function as unreliable Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 25/44] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: don't print unreliable addresses in print_context_stack_bp() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 26/44] x86/dumpstack: allow preemption in show_stack_log_lvl() and dump_trace() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 27/44] x86/dumpstack: simplify in_exception_stack() Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 28/44] x86/dumpstack: add get_stack_info() interface Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 29/44] x86/dumpstack: add recursion checking for all stacks Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 30/44] x86/unwind: add new unwind interface and implementations Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-09 23:17 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-08-09 23:27 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-10 7:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-08-10 14:16 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-11 7:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-08-11 14:28 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-11 14:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-08-11 16:09 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-11 18:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-08-11 19:15 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 31/44] perf/x86: convert perf_callchain_kernel() to use the new unwinder Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 32/44] x86/stacktrace: convert save_stack_trace_*() " Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 33/44] oprofile/x86: convert x86_backtrace() " Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 34/44] x86/dumpstack: convert show_trace_log_lvl() " Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 35/44] x86/dumpstack: remove dump_trace() and related callbacks Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 36/44] x86/entry/unwind: encode pt_regs pointer in frame pointer Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-08 23:06 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 37/44] x86/unwind: detect syscall entry regs Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 38/44] x86/dumpstack: print stack identifier on its own line Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 39/44] x86/dumpstack: print any pt_regs found on the stack Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 40/44] x86: remove 64-byte gap at end of irq stack Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 41/44] x86/asm/head: standardize the end of the stack for idle tasks Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 42/44] x86/unwind: warn on kernel stack corruption Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 43/44] x86/unwind: warn on bad stack return address Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-04 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 44/44] x86/unwind: warn if stack grows up Josh Poimboeuf
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