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Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 2015 06:15:09 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org" 
	<linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry: Replace this_cpu_sp0() with
 current_top_of_stack() and fix it on x86_32

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:37 AM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
> <tipbot@...or.com> wrote:
>> Commit-ID:  a7fcf28d431ef70afaa91496e64e16dc51dccec4
>> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a7fcf28d431ef70afaa91496e64e16dc51dccec4
>> Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
>> AuthorDate: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:50:19 -0800
>> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
>> CommitDate: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 09:34:03 +0100
>>
>> x86/asm/entry: Replace this_cpu_sp0() with current_top_of_stack() and fix it on x86_32
>>
>> I broke 32-bit kernels.  The implementation of sp0 was correct
>> as far as I can tell, but sp0 was much weirder on x86_32 than I
>> realized.  It has the following issues:
>>
>>  - Init's sp0 is inconsistent with everything else's: non-init tasks
>>    are offset by 8 bytes.  (I have no idea why, and the comment is unhelpful.)
>>
>>  - vm86 does crazy things to sp0.
>>
>> Fix it up by replacing this_cpu_sp0() with
>> current_top_of_stack() and using a new percpu variable to track
>> the top of the stack on x86_32.
>
> Looks like the hope that tss.sp0 is a reliable variable
> which points to top of stack didn't really play out :(
>
> Recent relevant commits in x86/entry were:
>
> x86/asm/entry: Add this_cpu_sp0() to read sp0 for the current cpu
> - added accessor to tss.sp0
>     "We currently store references to the top of the kernel stack in
>     multiple places: kernel_stack (with an offset) and
>     init_tss.x86_tss.sp0 (no offset).  The latter is defined by
>     hardware and is a clean canonical way to find the top of the
>     stack.  Add an accessor so we can start using it."
>
> x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()
> - equivalent change, no win/no loss
>
> x86/asm/entry/64/compat: Change the 32-bit sysenter code to use sp0
> - Even though it did remove one insn, we can get the same
>   if KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET will be eliminated
>
> x86: Delay loading sp0 slightly on task switch
> - simple fix, nothing needed to be added
>
> x86: Replace this_cpu_sp0 with current_top_of_stack and fix it on x86_32
> - added a percpu var cpu_current_top_of_stack
> - needs to set it in do_boot_cpu()
> - added ifdef forest:
>   +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>           return this_cpu_read_stable(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0);
>   +#else
>   +       /* sp0 on x86_32 is special in and around vm86 mode. */
>   +       return this_cpu_read_stable(cpu_current_top_of_stack);
>   +#endif
>
>
>
> End result is, now 32-bit kernel has two per-cpu vartiables,
> cpu_current_top_of_stack and kernel_stack.
>
> cpu_current_top_of_stack is essentially "real top of stack",
> and kernel_stack is "real top of stack - KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET".
>
> When/if we get rid of KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET,
> we can also get rid of kernel_stack, since it will be the same as
> cpu_current_top_of_stack (which is a better name anyway).

Exactly.

I think the next step might be to decouple GET_THREAD_INFO and friends
from kernel_stack.  I think that might be enough to get rid of
kernel_stack on 32-bit.  64 has two other remaining users: the syscall
entries.

--Andy
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