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Subject[PATCH 2/3] x86/documentation: Remove STACKFAULT_STACK bulletpoint
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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Update the documentation after

6f442be2fb22 ("x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS").

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks
index e3c8a49d1a2f..c3c935b9d56e 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks
+++ b/Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Kernel stacks on x86-64 bit
+---------------------------
+
Most of the text from Keith Owens, hacked by AK

x86_64 page size (PAGE_SIZE) is 4K.
@@ -56,13 +59,6 @@ If that assumption is ever broken then the stacks will become corrupt.

The currently assigned IST stacks are :-

-* STACKFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE).
-
- Used for interrupt 12 - Stack Fault Exception (#SS).
-
- This allows the CPU to recover from invalid stack segments. Rarely
- happens.
-
* DOUBLEFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE).

Used for interrupt 8 - Double Fault Exception (#DF).
--
2.3.5


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