| From: |
| Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> |
| To: |
| benh@kernel.crashing.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCHES] (4/4) stack updates for x86 |
| Date: |
| Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:09:37 -0800 |
| Cc: |
| Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |
The kernel currently uses an 8k stack, per task. Here is the
infrastructure needed to allow us to halve that.
D-4k-stack-2.5.50+bk-5.patch
make a config option to turn on 4k stacks. (there appears to
be a problem with this right now).
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project:
# Project Name: Linux kernel tree
# This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher.
# This patch includes the following deltas:
# ChangeSet 1.862 -> 1.864
# include/asm-i386/thread_info.h 1.13 -> 1.15
# arch/i386/Kconfig 1.15 -> 1.16
#
# The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log
# --------------------------------------------
# 02/12/09 haveblue@elm3b96.(none) 1.863
# Merge elm3b96.(none):/work/dave/bk/linux-2.5-stack_size-config
# into elm3b96.(none):/work/dave/bk/linux-2.5-4k_stack
# --------------------------------------------
# 02/12/09 haveblue@elm3b96.(none) 1.864
# thread_info.h:
# do sane overflow detection with 4k stack
# --------------------------------------------
#
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Dec 9 13:33:26 2002
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Dec 9 13:33:26 2002
@@ -720,6 +720,16 @@
low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
entries in high memory.
+config 4K_STACK
+ bool "Use smaller 4k per-task stacks"
+ help
+ This option will shrink the kernel's per-task stack from 8k to
+ 4k. This will greatly increase your chance of overflowing it.
+ But, if you use the per-cpu interrupt stacks as well, your chances
+ go way down. Also try the CONFIG_X86_STACK_CHECK overflow
+ detection. It is much more reliable than the currently in-kernel
+ version.
+
config MATH_EMULATION
bool "Math emulation"
---help---
diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h b/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h Mon Dec 9 13:33:26 2002
+++ b/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h Mon Dec 9 13:33:26 2002
@@ -61,10 +61,16 @@
*
* preempt_count needs to be 1 initially, until the scheduler is functional.
*/
-#define THREAD_ORDER 1
+#ifdef CONFIG_4K_STACK
+#define THREAD_ORDER 0
+#define STACK_WARN 0x200
+#define STACK_PANIC 0x100
+#else
+#define THREAD_ORDER 1
+#define STACK_WARN ((THREAD_SIZE)>>1)
+#define STACK_PANIC 0x100
+#endif
#define INIT_THREAD_SIZE THREAD_SIZE
-#define STACK_PANIC 0x200ul
-#define STACK_WARN ((THREAD_SIZE)>>1)
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__