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[PATCH v2 08/12] x86/entry: Only allocate space for SYSENTER_stack if needed

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  [PATCH v2 08/12] x86/entry: Only allocate space for SYSENTER_stack if needed Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-03-10 04:10 +0100
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Only allocate space for  tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-03-10 12:10 +0100

#1354806 — [PATCH v2 08/12] x86/entry: Only allocate space for SYSENTER_stack if needed

The SYSENTER stack is only used on 32-bit kernels.  Remove it in
64-bit kernels.

(We may end up using it down the road on 64-bit kernels.  If so,
 we'll re-enable it for CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION.)

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index ecb410310e70..7cd01b71b5bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -297,10 +297,12 @@ struct tss_struct {
 	 */
 	unsigned long		io_bitmap[IO_BITMAP_LONGS + 1];
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	/*
 	 * Space for the temporary SYSENTER stack:
 	 */
 	unsigned long		SYSENTER_stack[64];
+#endif
 
 } ____cacheline_aligned;
 
-- 
2.5.0

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#1355017 — [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed

Commit-ID:  6dcc94149d605908a7c0c4cf2085340637aac86d
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/6dcc94149d605908a7c0c4cf2085340637aac86d
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:00:31 -0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:48:14 +0100

x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed

The SYSENTER stack is only used on 32-bit kernels.  Remove it on 64-bit kernels.

( We may end up using it down the road on 64-bit kernels. If so,
  we'll re-enable it for CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION. )

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9dbd18429f9ff61a76b6eda97a9ea20510b9f6ba.1457578375.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index ecb4103..7cd01b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -297,10 +297,12 @@ struct tss_struct {
 	 */
 	unsigned long		io_bitmap[IO_BITMAP_LONGS + 1];
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	/*
 	 * Space for the temporary SYSENTER stack:
 	 */
 	unsigned long		SYSENTER_stack[64];
+#endif
 
 } ____cacheline_aligned;
 

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