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For historical reasons, we leave the top 16 bytes of our task and IRQ stacks unused, a practice used to ensure that the SP can always be masked to find the base of the current stack (historically, where thread_info could be found). However, this is not necessary, as: * When an exception is taken from a task stack, we decrement the SP by S_FRAME_SIZE and stash the exception registers before we compare the SP against the task stack. In such cases, the SP must be at least S_FRAME_SIZE below the limit, and can be safely masked to determine whether the task stack is in use. * When transitioning to an IRQ stack, we'll place a dummy frame onto the IRQ stack before enabling asynchronous exceptions, or executing code we expect to trigger faults. Thus, if an exception is taken from the IRQ stack, the SP must be at least 16 bytes below the limit. * We no longer mask the SP to find the thread_info, which is now found via sp_el0. Note that historically, the offset was critical to ensure that cpu_switch_to() found the correct stack for new threads that hadn't yet executed ret_from_fork(). Given that, this initial offset serves no purpose, and can be removed. This brings us in-line with other architectures (e.g. x86) which do not rely on this masking. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> [Mark: rebase, kill THREAD_START_SP, commit msg additions] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.