> -----Original Message----- > From: Kumar Gala [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:36 PM > To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: set stack limit properly in > crit_transfer_to_handler > > > On Jul 16, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Stuart Yoder wrote: > > > From: Stuart Yoder <[email protected]> > > > > without setting the stack limit like this there is the possibility > > of stack overflow which corrupts the thread info but > > is not detected by stack overflow detection > > > > Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <[email protected]> > > --- > > arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 12 ++++++++++-- > > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > Do we need this for debug & mcheck ?
Maybe... I don't know the history of this code and why this is only done in the critical exception handlers. But, this particular patch is to undo/fix something I introduced in: powerpc: Use CURRENT_THREAD_INFO instead of open coded assembly Stuart _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
