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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2016-09-15 22:45:43 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-09-16 09:18:53 +0200
commitc6c314a613cd7d03fb97713e0d642b493de42e69 (patch)
tree4091773558e10d6607f63c8cf33b3dc5253d836c /init
parentff0071c03684485495e06f3936399eb9c93141a6 (diff)
sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()
There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code paths to pin the stack. Signed-off-by: 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: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index ec8d43894b02..3b9a47fe843b 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields
except flags and fix any runtime bugs.
+ One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack()
+ and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan().
+
menu "General setup"
config BROKEN