In some cases, an architecture might wish its stacks to be aligned to a boundary larger than THREAD_SIZE. For example, using an alignment of double THREAD_SIZE can allow for stack overflows smaller than THREAD_SIZE to be detected by checking a single bit of the stack pointer.
This patch allows architectures to override the alignment of VMAP'd stacks, by defining THREAD_ALIGN. Where not defined, this defaults to THREAD_SIZE, as is the case today. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Cc: James Morse <[email protected]> Cc: Laura Abbott <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- kernel/fork.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 17921b0..696d692 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -217,7 +217,10 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node) return s->addr; } - stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, +#ifndef THREAD_ALIGN +#define THREAD_ALIGN THREAD_SIZE +#endif + stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END, THREADINFO_GFP, PAGE_KERNEL, -- 1.9.1
