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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2015-03-07 01:50:19 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-07 08:34:03 (GMT)
commita7fcf28d431ef70afaa91496e64e16dc51dccec4 (patch)
tree3de032435c43db84cdfc4f7e46df4d118b86fe82 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
parentb27559a433bb6080d95c2593d4a2b81401197911 (diff)
downloadlinux-a7fcf28d431ef70afaa91496e64e16dc51dccec4.tar.xz
x86/asm/entry: Replace this_cpu_sp0() with current_top_of_stack() and fix it on x86_32
I broke 32-bit kernels. The implementation of sp0 was correct as far as I can tell, but sp0 was much weirder on x86_32 than I realized. It has the following issues: - Init's sp0 is inconsistent with everything else's: non-init tasks are offset by 8 bytes. (I have no idea why, and the comment is unhelpful.) - vm86 does crazy things to sp0. Fix it up by replacing this_cpu_sp0() with current_top_of_stack() and using a new percpu variable to track the top of the stack on x86_32. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> 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: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 75182b1632a8 ("x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d09dbe270883433776e0cbee3c7079433349e96d.1425692936.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 5d0f0cc..7634833 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1130,8 +1130,8 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU_FIRST(union irq_stack_union,
irq_stack_union) __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) __visible;
/*
- * The following four percpu variables are hot. Align current_task to
- * cacheline size such that all four fall in the same cacheline.
+ * The following percpu variables are hot. Align current_task to
+ * cacheline size such that they fall in the same cacheline.
*/
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, current_task) ____cacheline_aligned =
&init_task;
@@ -1226,6 +1226,15 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, __preempt_count) = INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT;
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(__preempt_count);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, fpu_owner_task);
+/*
+ * On x86_32, vm86 modifies tss.sp0, so sp0 isn't a reliable way to find
+ * the top of the kernel stack. Use an extra percpu variable to track the
+ * top of the kernel stack directly.
+ */
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cpu_current_top_of_stack) =
+ (unsigned long)&init_thread_union + THREAD_SIZE;
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_current_top_of_stack);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct stack_canary, stack_canary);
#endif