[PATCH] (1/4) stack updates for x86

Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:09:15 -0800


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The kernel currently uses an 8k stack, per task. Here is the
infrastructure needed to allow us to halve that.

A-thread_info_cleanup-2.5.50+bk-5.patch
Gets asm-i386/thread_info.h ready for the irqstack and
overflow detection patches

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: Linux kernel tree # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following deltas: # ChangeSet 1.858 -> 1.859 # arch/i386/kernel/head.S 1.17.1.1 -> 1.19 # include/asm-i386/thread_info.h 1.7.1.1 -> 1.9 # include/asm-i386/page.h 1.19 -> 1.20 # arch/i386/kernel/entry.S 1.37.1.4 -> 1.43 # # The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log # -------------------------------------------- # 02/12/09 haveblue@elm3b96.(none) 1.859 # Merge elm3b96.(none):/work/dave/bk/linux-2.5 # into elm3b96.(none):/work/dave/bk/linux-2.5-thread_info_infra # -------------------------------------------- # diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S --- a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ pushl %eax popfl - andl $-8192, %ebx # GET_THREAD_INFO + GET_THREAD_INFO_WITH_ESP(%ebx) # GET_THREAD_INFO movl TI_EXEC_DOMAIN(%ebx), %edx # Get the execution domain call *4(%edx) # Call the lcall7 handler for the domain addl $4, %esp diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S --- a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h> #include <asm/desc.h> +#include <asm/thread_info.h> #define OLD_CL_MAGIC_ADDR 0x90020 #define OLD_CL_MAGIC 0xA33F @@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ ret ENTRY(stack_start) - .long init_thread_union+8192 + .long init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE .long __KERNEL_DS /* This is the default interrupt "handler" :-) */ diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/page.h b/include/asm-i386/page.h --- a/include/asm-i386/page.h Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 +++ b/include/asm-i386/page.h Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 @@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ /* PAGE_SHIFT determines the page size */ #define PAGE_SHIFT 12 -#define PAGE_SIZE (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT) +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ +#define PAGE_SIZE (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT) +#else +#define PAGE_SIZE (1 << PAGE_SHIFT) +#endif #define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1)) #define LARGE_PAGE_MASK (~(LARGE_PAGE_SIZE-1)) diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h b/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h --- a/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 +++ b/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h Mon Dec 9 10:55:19 2002 @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ +#include <asm/page.h> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ #include <asm/processor.h> #endif @@ -57,11 +58,14 @@ * * preempt_count needs to be 1 initially, until the scheduler is functional. */ +#define THREAD_ORDER 1 +#define INIT_THREAD_SIZE THREAD_SIZE + #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ #define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk) \ { \ - .task = &tsk, \ + .task = &tsk, \ .exec_domain = &default_exec_domain, \ .flags = 0, \ .cpu = 0, \ @@ -75,30 +79,36 @@ #define init_thread_info (init_thread_union.thread_info) #define init_stack (init_thread_union.stack) +/* thread information allocation */ +#define THREAD_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE << THREAD_ORDER) +#define alloc_thread_info() ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,THREAD_ORDER)) +#define free_thread_info(ti) free_pages((unsigned long) (ti), THREAD_ORDER) +#define get_thread_info(ti) get_task_struct((ti)->task) +#define put_thread_info(ti) put_task_struct((ti)->task) + /* how to get the thread information struct from C */ static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void) { struct thread_info *ti; - __asm__("andl %%esp,%0; ":"=r" (ti) : "0" (~8191UL)); + __asm__("andl %%esp,%0; ":"=r" (ti) : "0" (~(THREAD_SIZE - 1))); return ti; } -/* thread information allocation */ -#define THREAD_SIZE (2*PAGE_SIZE) -#define alloc_thread_info() ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,1)) -#define free_thread_info(ti) free_pages((unsigned long) (ti), 1) -#define get_thread_info(ti) get_task_struct((ti)->task) -#define put_thread_info(ti) put_task_struct((ti)->task) - #else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ +#define THREAD_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE << THREAD_ORDER) + /* how to get the thread information struct from ASM */ #define GET_THREAD_INFO(reg) \ - movl $-8192, reg; \ + movl $-THREAD_SIZE, reg; \ andl %esp, reg -#endif +/* use this one if reg already contains %esp */ +#define GET_THREAD_INFO_WITH_ESP(reg) \ + andl $-THREAD_SIZE, reg +#endif + /* * thread information flags * - these are process state flags that various assembly files may need to access

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