s390: add support for virtually mapped kernel stacks

With virtually mapped kernel stacks the kernel stack overflow detection
is now fault based, every stack has a guard page in the vmalloc space.
The panic_stack is renamed to nodat_stack and is used for all function
that need to run without DAT, e.g. memcpy_real or do_start_kdump.

The main effect is a reduction in the kernel image size as with vmap
stacks the old style overflow checking that adds two instructions per
function is not needed anymore. Result from bloat-o-meter:

add/remove: 20/1 grow/shrink: 13/26854 up/down: 2198/-216240 (-214042)

In regard to performance the micro-benchmark for fork has a hit of a
few microseconds, allocating 4 pages in vmalloc space is more expensive
compare to an order-2 page allocation. But with real workload I could
not find a noticeable difference.

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Martin Schwidefsky
2017-09-12 16:37:33 +02:00
parent ff340d2472
commit ce3dc44749
16 changed files with 228 additions and 91 deletions

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@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ struct lowcore {
__u64 current_task; /* 0x0338 */
__u64 kernel_stack; /* 0x0340 */
/* Interrupt, panic and restart stack. */
/* Interrupt, DAT-off and restartstack. */
__u64 async_stack; /* 0x0348 */
__u64 panic_stack; /* 0x0350 */
__u64 nodat_stack; /* 0x0350 */
__u64 restart_stack; /* 0x0358 */
/* Restart function and parameter. */