From c6c314a613cd7d03fb97713e0d642b493de42e69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:45:43 -0700
Subject: 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>
---
 init/Kconfig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'init')

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
-- 
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