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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:29:55 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 11/19] x86/mm: Make STACK_TOP_MAX dynamic
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Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


* Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> For boot-time switching between paging modes, we need to be able to
> change STACK_TOP_MAX at runtime.
> 
> The change is trivial and it doesn't affect kernel image size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> index 3fa26a61eabc..fa9300ccce1b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
> @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static inline void spin_lock_prefetch(const void *x)
>  					IA32_PAGE_OFFSET : TASK_SIZE_MAX)
>  
>  #define STACK_TOP		TASK_SIZE_LOW
> -#define STACK_TOP_MAX		TASK_SIZE_MAX
> +#define STACK_TOP_MAX		(pgtable_l5_enabled ? TASK_SIZE_MAX : DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW)

While it's only used once in fs/exec.c, why doesn't it affect kernel image size?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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