linux/arch/powerpc/include
Benjamin Herrenschmidt cbc9565ee8 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>
2013-09-25 14:15:51 +10:00
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asm powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on ppc64 2013-09-25 14:15:51 +10:00
uapi/asm powerpc: Fix little endian coredumps 2013-08-14 15:33:39 +10:00