Re: [4/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct thread_info

2016-04-19 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2016-13-04 at 12:53:22 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > In order to support live patching we need to maintain an alternate > stack of TOC & LR values. We use the base of the stack for this, and > store the "live patch stack pointer" in struct thread_info. > > Unlike the other fields of threa

[PATCH 4/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct thread_info

2016-04-13 Thread Michael Ellerman
In order to support live patching we need to maintain an alternate stack of TOC & LR values. We use the base of the stack for this, and store the "live patch stack pointer" in struct thread_info. Unlike the other fields of thread_info, we can not statically initialise that value, so it must be don