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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks index 9a0aa4d3a866..d1bfb0b95ee0 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks +++ b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ If that assumption is ever broken then the stacks will become corrupt. The currently assigned IST stacks are :- -* DOUBLEFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). +* ESTACK_DF. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). Used for interrupt 8 - Double Fault Exception (#DF). @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The currently assigned IST stacks are :- Using a separate stack allows the kernel to recover from it well enough in many cases to still output an oops. -* NMI_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). +* ESTACK_NMI. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). Used for non-maskable interrupts (NMI). @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The currently assigned IST stacks are :- middle of switching stacks. Using IST for NMI events avoids making assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack. -* DEBUG_STACK. DEBUG_STKSZ +* ESTACK_DB. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). Used for hardware debug interrupts (interrupt 1) and for software debug interrupts (INT3). @@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ The currently assigned IST stacks are :- avoids making assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack. -* MCE_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). + To handle nested #DB correctly there exist two instances of DB stacks. On + #DB entry the IST stackpointer for #DB is switched to the second instance + so a nested #DB starts from a clean stack. The nested #DB switches + the IST stackpointer to a guard hole to catch triple nesting. + +* ESTACK_MCE. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). Used for interrupt 18 - Machine Check Exception (#MC). |