linux/arch
Linus Torvalds aca9c293d0 x86: fix up a few misc stack pointer vs thread_info confusions
As the actual pointer value is the same for the thread stack allocation
and the thread_info, code that confused the two worked fine, but will
break when the thread info is moved away from the stack allocation.  It
also looks very confusing.

For example, the kprobe code wanted to know the current top of stack.
To do that, it used this:

	(unsigned long)current_thread_info() + THREAD_SIZE

which did indeed give the correct value.  But it's not only a fairly
nonsensical expression, it's also rather complex, especially since we
actually have this:

	static inline unsigned long current_top_of_stack(void)

which not only gives us the value we are interested in, but happens to
be how "current_thread_info()" is currently defined as:

	(struct thread_info *)(current_top_of_stack() - THREAD_SIZE);

so using current_thread_info() to figure out the top of the stack really
is a very round-about thing to do.

The other cases are just simpler confusion about task_thread_info() vs
task_stack_page(), which currently return the same pointer - but if you
want the stack page, you really should be using the latter one.

And there was one entirely unused assignment of the current stack to a
thread_info pointer.

All cleaned up to make more sense today, and make it easier to move the
thread_info away from the stack in the future.

No semantic changes.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-24 16:55:53 -07:00
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alpha lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
arc Revert "ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock/atomics: Delayed retry of failed SCOND with exponential backoff" 2016-06-02 10:59:23 +05:30
arm ARM: SoC fixes 2016-06-18 20:36:17 -10:00
arm64 ARM: SoC fixes 2016-06-18 20:36:17 -10:00
avr32 printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
blackfin printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
c6x asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
cris MTD updates for v4.7: 2016-05-24 11:00:20 -07:00
frv exit_thread: remove empty bodies 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
hexagon asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
ia64 Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
metag Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
mips MIPS: KVM: Fix CACHE triggered exception emulation 2016-06-14 10:59:45 +02:00
mn10300 Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
nios2 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
openrisc asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
parisc parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header 2016-06-05 08:49:01 +02:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.7 #2 2016-06-10 12:23:49 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-06-20 10:18:58 -07:00
score asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2016-05-31 22:20:56 -07:00
tile Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2016-05-27 18:54:59 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
x86 x86: fix up a few misc stack pointer vs thread_info confusions 2016-06-24 16:55:53 -07:00
xtensa Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
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Kconfig Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00