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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2016-08-13 19:38:18 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-08-24 13:27:41 +0300 |
| commit | 7b32aeadbc95d4a41402c1c0da6aa3ab51af4c10 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae68aec049bfffe5fdcd725836bd31c61538fda /arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | |
| parent | 163630191ecb0dd9e4146d3c910045aba1cfeec1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7b32aeadbc95d4a41402c1c0da6aa3ab51af4c10.tar.xz | |
sched/x86: Add 'struct inactive_task_frame' to better document the sleeping task stack frame
Add 'struct inactive_task_frame', which defines the layout of the stack for
a sleeping process. For now, the only defined field is the BP register
(frame pointer).
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471106302-10159-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h index 14e4b20f0aaf..ec689c62c01f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ static inline void prepare_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev, #endif } +/* data that is pointed to by thread.sp */ +struct inactive_task_frame { + unsigned long bp; +}; + #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR |