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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2017-09-12 16:37:33 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2018-10-09 11:20:57 +0200
commitce3dc447493ff4186b192b38d723ab5e8c1eb52f (patch)
treef93f58afcd85087876a1ab9badcdaed76b5a37fe /arch/s390/kernel/head64.S
parentff340d2472ec7618443913928af9fb85a7009270 (diff)
downloadlinux-ce3dc447493ff4186b192b38d723ab5e8c1eb52f.tar.bz2
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kernel/head64.S')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/head64.S b/arch/s390/kernel/head64.S
index b31dfb102700..57bba24b1c27 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/head64.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/head64.S
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ ENTRY(startup_continue)
#
larl %r14,init_task
stg %r14,__LC_CURRENT
- larl %r15,init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE
- stg %r15,__LC_KERNEL_STACK # set end of kernel stack
- aghi %r15,-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
+ larl %r15,init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
#
# Early setup functions that may not rely on an initialized bss section,
# like moving the initrd. Returns with an initialized bss section.