linux-kernel - [PATCH] Documentation/x86_64: Fix a thread stack size

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Message-Id: <20160815182010.8484-1-kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:20:10 +0600
From:	Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@...il.com>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86_64: Fix a thread stack size

current information about THREAD_SIZE value is obsoleted. This patch
fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks
index 9a0aa4d..f4b4197 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks
+++ b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Most of the text from Keith Owens, hacked by AK
 x86_64 page size (PAGE_SIZE) is 4K.
 
 Like all other architectures, x86_64 has a kernel stack for every
-active thread.  These thread stacks are THREAD_SIZE (2*PAGE_SIZE) big.
+active thread.  These thread stacks are THREAD_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE << 2)
+or (PAGE_SIZE << 3) if the CONFIG_KASAN is enabled.
 These stacks contain useful data as long as a thread is alive or a
 zombie. While the thread is in user space the kernel stack is empty
 except for the thread_info structure at the bottom.
-- 
2.8.0.rc3.1353.gea9bdc0