sched/x86: Add 'struct inactive_task_frame' to better document the sleeping task stack frame

Add 'struct inactive_task_frame', which defines the layout of the stack for
a sleeping process.  For now, the only defined field is the BP register
(frame pointer).

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.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/1471106302-10159-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Brian Gerst
2016-08-13 12:38:18 -04:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 163630191e
commit 7b32aeadbc
4 changed files with 11 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ static inline void prepare_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
#endif
}
/* data that is pointed to by thread.sp */
struct inactive_task_frame {
unsigned long bp;
};
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR