linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/7] powerpc: regain entire stack space

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Date:   Wed, 3 Oct 2018 15:34:48 +1000
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/7] powerpc: regain entire stack space

On Mon,  1 Oct 2018 12:30:25 +0000 (UTC)
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> wrote:

> thread_info is not anymore in the stack, so the entire stack
> can now be used.

Nice.

> 
> In the meantime, all pointers to the stacks are not anymore
> pointers to thread_info so this patch changes them to void*

Wasn't this previously effectively already the case with patch
3/7? You had thread_info sized space left there, but it was not
used or initialized right? Does it make sense to move this part
of it to the previous patch?

Thanks,
Nick