powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on ppc64

We've been keeping that field in thread_struct for a while, it contains
the "limit" of the current stack pointer and is meant to be used for
detecting stack overflows.

It has a few problems however:

 - First, it was never actually *used* on 64-bit. Set and updated but
not actually exploited

 - When switching stack to/from irq and softirq stacks, it's update
is racy unless we hard disable interrupts, which is costly. This
is fine on 32-bit as we don't soft-disable there but not on 64-bit.

Thus rather than fixing 2 in order to implement 1 in some hypothetical
future, let's remove the code completely from 64-bit. In order to avoid
a clutter of ifdef's, we remove the updates from C code completely
during interrupt stack switching, and instead maintain it from the
asm helper that is used to do the stack switching in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This commit is contained in:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-24 15:17:21 +10:00
parent 0366a1c70b
commit cbc9565ee8
6 changed files with 23 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -149,8 +149,6 @@ typedef struct {
struct thread_struct {
unsigned long ksp; /* Kernel stack pointer */
unsigned long ksp_limit; /* if ksp <= ksp_limit stack overflow */
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
unsigned long ksp_vsid;
#endif
@@ -162,6 +160,7 @@ struct thread_struct {
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
void *pgdir; /* root of page-table tree */
unsigned long ksp_limit; /* if ksp <= ksp_limit stack overflow */
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
/*
@@ -321,7 +320,6 @@ struct thread_struct {
#else
#define INIT_THREAD { \
.ksp = INIT_SP, \
.ksp_limit = INIT_SP_LIMIT, \
.regs = (struct pt_regs *)INIT_SP - 1, /* XXX bogus, I think */ \
.fs = KERNEL_DS, \
.fpr = {{0}}, \