Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:41:35 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/3] x86: Add this_cpu_sp0() to read sp0 for the current cpu |
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: > > * Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: >> > >> > * Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: >> > >> >> We currently store references to the top of the kernel stack in >> >> multiple places: kernel_stack (with an offset) and >> >> init_tss.x86_tss.sp0 (no offset). The latter is defined by hardware >> >> and is a clean canonical way to find the top of the stack. Add an >> > >> > Btw., 'per_cpu(init_tss)' is a somewhat misleading name these days, as >> > there's nothing 'init' about it anymore - we load it during CPU init >> > and then manually maintain its contents. A better name would be >> > 'current_tss' - referring to both the current CPU and the current >> > task? >> >> Hmm. That seems a little odd to me, since we never change the TSS >> pointer. It's certainly better than init_tss, though. I'll add a >> followup to rename it. > > Alternatively we could use 'cpu_tss': the CPU's current TSS.
I painted my bikeshed "singleton_tss", since cpu_tss seemed redundant for something that's already per cpu. If you prefer your bikeshed color, let me know.
--Andy
> > Thanks, > > Ingo
-- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC
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