x86/asm/entry: Create and use a 'TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING' macro

x86_32, unlike x86_64, pads the top of the kernel stack, because the
hardware stack frame formats are variable in size.

Document this padding and give it a name.

This should make no change whatsoever to the compiled kernel
image. It also doesn't fix any of the current bugs in this area.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/02bf2f54b8dcb76a62a142b6dfe07d4ef7fc582e.1426009661.git.luto@amacapital.net
[ Fixed small details, such as a missed magic constant in entry_32.S pointed out by Denys Vlasenko. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-10 11:05:58 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9a036b93a3
commit 3ee4298f44
3 changed files with 30 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -849,7 +849,8 @@ extern unsigned long thread_saved_pc(struct task_struct *tsk);
#define task_pt_regs(task) \
({ \
struct pt_regs *__regs__; \
__regs__ = (struct pt_regs *)(KSTK_TOP(task_stack_page(task))-8); \
__regs__ = (struct pt_regs *)(KSTK_TOP(task_stack_page(task)) - \
TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING); \
__regs__ - 1; \
})