Re: [PATCH v16 16/21] powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

2019-02-06 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 07/02/2019 à 05:53, Nicholas Piggin a écrit : Michael Ellerman's on February 5, 2019 9:32 pm: From: Christophe Leroy This patch activates CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which moves the thread_info into task_struct. Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages: - It pr

Re: [PATCH v16 16/21] powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

2019-02-06 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Michael Ellerman's on February 5, 2019 9:32 pm: > From: Christophe Leroy > > This patch activates CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which > moves the thread_info into task_struct. > > Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages: > - It protects thread_info from corruption in the

Re: [PATCH v16 16/21] powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

2019-02-06 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Michael Ellerman's on February 5, 2019 9:32 pm: > From: Christophe Leroy > > This patch activates CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which > moves the thread_info into task_struct. > > Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages: > - It protects thread_info from corruption in the

[PATCH v16 16/21] powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

2019-02-05 Thread Michael Ellerman
From: Christophe Leroy This patch activates CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which moves the thread_info into task_struct. Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages: - It protects thread_info from corruption in the case of stack overflows. - Its address is harder to dete