linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] x86: lds - Use THREAD

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Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:06:54 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, ak@...e.de, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86: lds - Use THREAD_SIZE instead of numeric
	constant

[H. Peter Anvin - Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:48:58AM -0800]
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> Yes Sam, I've read Peter and Ingo comments on this patch
>> (actually I sent the same patch maybe week ago and Peter
>> and Ingo told me that we use %fs,%gs now for stack) but
>> as I pointed in comment - this alignment is still using
>> by Xen and lguest and even x86. So - it would be really
>> usefull for me if someone give me the last point - YES we
>> use such an alignment for stack, NO - we don't use it at all.
>> I was trying to hadle this myself - but I'm not a specialist
>> in this area you know ;)
>
> It bugs me quite a bit that paravirt clients contain this hack open-coded, 
> but that's not *your* fault.  There probably should be a macro to 
> encapsulate the stack pointer location for a specific thread.
>
> 	-hpa
>

Thanks Peter for comments. Peter could you clarify for me a bit
more on the string:

x86/kernel/head_32.S:339

	/* Set up the stack pointer */
	lss stack_start,%esp

but stack_start is defined as head_32.S:647

.data
ENTRY(stack_start)
	.long init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE

so stack_start *must* be aligned with THREAD_SIZE in vmlinux.lds
at compiling time. There is no PDA at this booting time. Am I wrong?
If you're too busy - just reply me like "Read the code" ;)

		- Cyrill -
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