linux-kernel - [PATCHv7 11/19] x86/mm: Make STACK_TOP

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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:55:45 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv7 11/19] x86/mm: Make STACK_TOP_MAX dynamic

For boot-time switching between paging modes, we need to be able to
change STACK_TOP_MAX at runtime.

The change is trivial and it doesn't affect kernel image size.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 3fa26a61eabc..fa9300ccce1b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static inline void spin_lock_prefetch(const void *x)
 					IA32_PAGE_OFFSET : TASK_SIZE_MAX)
 
 #define STACK_TOP		TASK_SIZE_LOW
-#define STACK_TOP_MAX		TASK_SIZE_MAX
+#define STACK_TOP_MAX		(pgtable_l5_enabled ? TASK_SIZE_MAX : DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW)
 
 #define INIT_THREAD  {						\
 	.sp0			= TOP_OF_INIT_STACK,		\
-- 
2.14.1