* Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> ---
> 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
