[PATCH 03/14] arm64: kernel: remove {THREAD,IRQ_STACK}_START_SP

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Mon Aug 07 2017 - 14:38:20 EST


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

For historical reasons, we leave the top 16 bytes of our task and IRQ
stacks unused, a practice used to ensure that the SP can always be
masked to find the base of the current stack (historically, where
thread_info could be found).

However, this is not necessary, as:

* When an exception is taken from a task stack, we decrement the SP by
S_FRAME_SIZE and stash the exception registers before we compare the
SP against the task stack. In such cases, the SP must be at least
S_FRAME_SIZE below the limit, and can be safely masked to determine
whether the task stack is in use.

* When transitioning to an IRQ stack, we'll place a dummy frame onto the
IRQ stack before enabling asynchronous exceptions, or executing code
we expect to trigger faults. Thus, if an exception is taken from the
IRQ stack, the SP must be at least 16 bytes below the limit.

* We no longer mask the SP to find the thread_info, which is now found
via sp_el0. Note that historically, the offset was critical to ensure
that cpu_switch_to() found the correct stack for new threads that
hadn't yet executed ret_from_fork().

Given that, this initial offset serves no purpose, and can be removed.
This brings us in-line with other architectures (e.g. x86) which do not
rely on this masking.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
[Mark: rebase, kill THREAD_START_SP, commit msg additions]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h | 5 ++---
arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 1 -
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
index 8ba89c4..1ebe202 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
#define __ASM_IRQ_H

#define IRQ_STACK_SIZE THREAD_SIZE
-#define IRQ_STACK_START_SP THREAD_START_SP

#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__

@@ -26,9 +25,9 @@ static inline int nr_legacy_irqs(void)
static inline bool on_irq_stack(unsigned long sp)
{
unsigned long low = (unsigned long)raw_cpu_ptr(irq_stack);
- unsigned long high = low + IRQ_STACK_START_SP;
+ unsigned long high = low + IRQ_STACK_SIZE;

- return (low <= sp && sp <= high);
+ return (low <= sp && sp < high);
}

static inline bool on_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long sp)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
index 64c9e78..6687dd2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ extern struct task_struct *cpu_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *next);

#define task_pt_regs(p) \
- ((struct pt_regs *)(THREAD_START_SP + task_stack_page(p)) - 1)
+ ((struct pt_regs *)(THREAD_SIZE + task_stack_page(p)) - 1)

#define KSTK_EIP(tsk) ((unsigned long)task_pt_regs(tsk)->pc)
#define KSTK_ESP(tsk) user_stack_pointer(task_pt_regs(tsk))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 46c3b93..b29ab0e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
#endif

#define THREAD_SIZE 16384
-#define THREAD_START_SP (THREAD_SIZE - 16)

#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 4ddb8d7..1c0f787 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
cbnz x25, 9998f

adr_this_cpu x25, irq_stack, x26
- mov x26, #IRQ_STACK_START_SP
+ mov x26, #IRQ_STACK_SIZE
add x26, x25, x26

/* switch to the irq stack */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index dc66e6e..f13ddb2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
* page tables.
*/
secondary_data.task = idle;
- secondary_data.stack = task_stack_page(idle) + THREAD_START_SP;
+ secondary_data.stack = task_stack_page(idle) + THREAD_SIZE;
update_cpu_boot_status(CPU_MMU_OFF);
__flush_dcache_area(&secondary_data, sizeof(secondary_data));

--
1.9.1