Linus Torvalds
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Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators ...
We've had the thread info allocated together with the thread stack for
most architectures for a long time (since the thread_info was split off
from the task struct), but that is about to change.
But the patches that move the thread info to be off-stack (and a part of
the task struct instead) made it clear how confused the allocator and
freeing functions are.
Because the common case was that we share an allocation with the thread
stack and the thread_info, the two pointers were identical. That
identity then meant that we would have things like
ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node);
...
tsk->stack = ti;
which certainly _worked_ (since stack and thread_info have the same
value), but is rather confusing: why are we assigning a thread_info to
the stack? And if we move the thread_info away, the "confusing" code
just gets to be entirely bogus.
So remove all this confusion, and make it clear that we are doing the
stack allocation by renaming and clarifying the function names to be
about the stack. The fact that the thread_info then shares the
allocation is an implementation detail, and not really about the
allocation itself.
This is a pure renaming and type fix: we pass in the same pointer, it's
just that we clarify what the pointer means.
The ia64 code that actually only has one single allocation (for all of
task_struct, thread_info and kernel thread stack) now looks a bit odd,
but since "tsk->stack" is actually not even used there, that oddity
doesn't matter. It would be a separate thing to clean that up, I
intentionally left the ia64 changes as a pure brute-force renaming and
type change.
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
2016-05-31 22:28:28 -07:00
mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings
2016-02-22 08:51:37 +01:00
Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2016-06-10 11:15:41 -07:00
gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST
2016-05-10 17:12:49 +02:00
irqchip updates for 4.7-rc1:
2016-06-03 15:05:51 +02:00
Merge branches 'for-4.7/core', 'for-4.7/livepatching-doc' and 'for-4.7/livepatching-ppc64' into for-linus
2016-05-17 12:06:35 +02:00
locking: avoid passing around 'thread_info' in mutex debugging code
2016-06-23 12:11:17 -07:00
PM / Hibernate: Call flush_icache_range() on pages restored in-place
2016-04-28 13:35:48 +01:00
printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
debugobjects: insulate non-fixup logic related to static obj from fixup callbacks
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Merge branch 'stacking-fixes' (vfs stacking fixes from Jann)
2016-06-10 12:10:02 -07:00
timer: Export destroy_hrtimer_on_stack()
2016-05-31 11:44:08 -07:00
tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()
2016-06-20 09:46:12 -04:00
certs: add .gitignore to stop git nagging about x509_certificate_list
2015-10-21 15:18:35 +01:00
async: export current_is_async()
2015-11-19 17:51:48 +01:00
Merge branch 'stable-4.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
2016-05-18 18:46:55 -07:00
security: Make inode argument of inode_getsecid non-const
2015-12-24 11:09:39 -05:00
wrappers for ->i_mutex access
2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
audit: cleanup prune_tree_thread
2016-04-04 09:46:47 -04:00
don't bother with ->d_inode->i_sb - it's always equal to ->d_sb
2016-04-10 17:11:51 -04:00
audit: Fix typo in comment
2016-02-08 11:25:39 -05:00
Merge branch 'stable-4.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
2016-05-18 18:46:55 -07:00
cgroup: fix compile warning
2016-05-12 11:05:27 -04:00
cgroup: kill cgrp_ss_priv[CGROUP_CANFORK_COUNT] and friends
2015-12-03 10:24:08 -05:00
cgroup_pids: fix a typo.
2015-12-14 14:54:37 -05:00
context_tracking: Switch to new static_branch API
2015-11-24 09:56:43 +01:00
sched/hotplug: Make activate() the last hotplug step
2016-05-06 14:58:25 +02:00
kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment
2015-09-03 02:42:20 +02:00
cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
wait: allow sys_waitid() to accept __WNOTHREAD/__WCLONE/__WALL
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
kernel/extable.c: remove duplicated include
2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators
2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
futex: Calculate the futex key based on a tail page for file-based futexes
2016-06-08 19:23:54 +02:00
ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kernel/hung_task.c: use timeout diff when timeout is updated
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
treewide: Remove old email address
2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
treewide: Remove old email address
2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kernel/kcov: unproxify debugfs file's fops
2016-06-15 04:56:35 -07:00
s390/kexec: consolidate crash_map/unmap_reserved_pages() and arch_kexec_protect(unprotect)_crashkres()
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
s390/kexec: consolidate crash_map/unmap_reserved_pages() and arch_kexec_protect(unprotect)_crashkres()
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
kexec: introduce a protection mechanism for the crashkernel reserved memory
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
kexec: move some memembers and definitions within the scope of CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kmod: don't run async usermode helper as a child of kworker thread
2015-10-23 17:55:10 +09:00
rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters
2015-12-07 16:59:37 -08:00
kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default
2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
ELF/MIPS build fix
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)
2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
memremap: add arch specific hook for MEMREMAP_WB mappings
2016-04-04 10:26:41 +02:00
module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules
2016-04-01 15:00:10 +02:00
KEYS: Move the point of trust determination to __key_link()
2016-04-11 22:43:43 +01:00
Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2015-09-01 08:40:25 -07:00
cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces
2016-02-16 13:04:58 -05:00
kernel/padata.c: hide unused functions
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
Nothing exciting, minor tweaks and cleanups.
2015-11-09 15:53:39 -08:00
remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses
2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00
profile: hide unused functions when !CONFIG_PROC_FS
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
ptrace: change __ptrace_unlink() to clear ->ptrace under ->siglock
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code
2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kernel/relay.c: fix potential memory leak
2016-06-09 14:23:11 -07:00
/proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users
2016-04-14 12:56:09 -07:00
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus
2016-05-19 10:02:26 -07:00
kernel/signal.c: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...) to pr_<level>(...)
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2016-03-15 13:50:29 -07:00
cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine
2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections
2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
kernel/stop_machine.c: remove CONFIG_SMP dependencies
2016-01-16 11:17:24 -08:00
prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait for mmap_sem killable
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper
2015-12-01 14:00:53 -05:00
Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use generic UUID library
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
task_work: remove fifo ordering guarantee
2015-09-05 13:46:58 -07:00
taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit
2016-04-23 20:13:25 -04:00
rcutorture: Dump trace buffer upon shutdown
2016-04-21 13:47:04 -07:00
kernel/...: convert pr_warning to pr_warn
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals()
2016-02-29 09:53:09 +01:00
kernel/*: switch to memdup_user_nul()
2016-01-04 10:27:55 -05:00
watchdog: don't run proc_watchdog_update if new value is same as old
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
debugobjects: insulate non-fixup logic related to static obj from fixup callbacks
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
sched/core: Get rid of 'cpu' argument in wq_worker_sleeping()
2016-03-02 10:28:47 -05:00
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