powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on ppc64

We've been keeping that field in thread_struct for a while, it contains
the "limit" of the current stack pointer and is meant to be used for
detecting stack overflows.

It has a few problems however:

 - First, it was never actually *used* on 64-bit. Set and updated but
not actually exploited

 - When switching stack to/from irq and softirq stacks, it's update
is racy unless we hard disable interrupts, which is costly. This
is fine on 32-bit as we don't soft-disable there but not on 64-bit.

Thus rather than fixing 2 in order to implement 1 in some hypothetical
future, let's remove the code completely from 64-bit. In order to avoid
a clutter of ifdef's, we remove the updates from C code completely
during interrupt stack switching, and instead maintain it from the
asm helper that is used to do the stack switching in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 6f428da53e20..96d2fdf3aa9e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -1000,9 +1000,10 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
         kregs = (struct pt_regs *) sp;
         sp -= STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD;
         p->thread.ksp = sp;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
         p->thread.ksp_limit = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p) +
                                 _ALIGN_UP(sizeof(struct thread_info), 16);
-
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
         p->thread.ptrace_bps[0] = NULL;
 #endif