[RFC PATCH v3 4/7] powerpc: regain entire stack space

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 15:34:48 AEST 2018


On Mon,  1 Oct 2018 12:30:25 +0000 (UTC)
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> wrote:

> thread_info is not anymore in the stack, so the entire stack
> can now be used.

Nice.

> 
> In the meantime, all pointers to the stacks are not anymore
> pointers to thread_info so this patch changes them to void*

Wasn't this previously effectively already the case with patch
3/7? You had thread_info sized space left there, but it was not
used or initialized right? Does it make sense to move this part
of it to the previous patch?

Thanks,
Nick


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