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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-09-21 16:04:01 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-20 09:15:22 +0200
commit4d516f41704055710da872b62ddc4b6d23248984 (patch)
tree45c1047f3f9e5a9f3b2d891b2c4b14107418e033 /arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
parent7252c4c35e94863bc13f37b4faad3087250a1588 (diff)
x86/entry/32: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks
Thanks to all the recent x86 entry code refactoring, most tasks' kernel stacks start at the same offset right below their saved pt_regs, regardless of which syscall was used to enter the kernel. That creates a nice convention which makes it straightforward to identify the end of the stack, which can be useful for the unwinder to verify the stack is sane. Calling schedule_tail() directly breaks that convention because its an asmlinkage function so its argument has to be pushed on the stack. Add a wrapper which creates a proper "end of stack" frame header before the call. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ecafcd882676bf48ceaf50483782552bb98476e5.1474480779.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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