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author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2015-05-26 04:28:19 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-05-27 08:39:46 -0400 |
commit | d724a9a52b0026ac6a05440c079c9a618acfd8cf (patch) | |
tree | bdc0664be6b4c680648636982a5bba69e06790dc /Documentation/x86 | |
parent | 54fd15780526c47fa29a85b066cf69996be59a59 (diff) |
x86/Documentation: Remove STACKFAULT_STACK bulletpoint
Update the documentation after
6f442be2fb22 ("x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS").
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-17-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/kernel-stacks | 10 |
1 files 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 @@ | |||
1 | Kernel stacks on x86-64 bit | ||
2 | --------------------------- | ||
3 | |||
1 | Most of the text from Keith Owens, hacked by AK | 4 | Most of the text from Keith Owens, hacked by AK |
2 | 5 | ||
3 | x86_64 page size (PAGE_SIZE) is 4K. | 6 | x86_64 page size (PAGE_SIZE) is 4K. |
@@ -56,13 +59,6 @@ If that assumption is ever broken then the stacks will become corrupt. | |||
56 | 59 | ||
57 | The currently assigned IST stacks are :- | 60 | The currently assigned IST stacks are :- |
58 | 61 | ||
59 | * STACKFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). | ||
60 | |||
61 | Used for interrupt 12 - Stack Fault Exception (#SS). | ||
62 | |||
63 | This allows the CPU to recover from invalid stack segments. Rarely | ||
64 | happens. | ||
65 | |||
66 | * DOUBLEFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). | 62 | * DOUBLEFAULT_STACK. EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE). |
67 | 63 | ||
68 | Used for interrupt 8 - Double Fault Exception (#DF). | 64 | Used for interrupt 8 - Double Fault Exception (#DF). |