From: "Alexander Beregalov" <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:42:36 +0400Something is screwey here... Hmmm... When I added the changeset in question, it fixed a problem in that any backtrace of a kernel thread would loop forever at the end. Any stack backtrace would hang or reach a safety limit (such as the one imposed by lockdep). Please double check that you are precisely reverting this patch below _before_ doing these tests: commit a051bc5bb1ac6dc138d529077fa20cbbc6622d95 Author: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed May 21 18:14:28 2008 -0700 sparc64: Fix kernel thread stack termination. Because of the silly way I set up the initial stack for new kernel threads, there is a loop at the top of the stack. To fix this, properly add another stack frame that is copied from the parent and terminate it in the child by setting the frame pointer in that frame to zero. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c index 0a0c05f..2084f81 100644 --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c @@ -657,20 +657,39 @@ int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, struct task_struct *p, struct pt_regs *regs) { struct thread_info *t = task_thread_info(p); + struct sparc_stackf *parent_sf; + unsigned long child_stack_sz; char *child_trap_frame; + int kernel_thread; - /* Calculate offset to stack_frame & pt_regs */ - child_trap_frame = task_stack_page(p) + (THREAD_SIZE - (TRACEREG_SZ+STACKFRAME_SZ)); - memcpy(child_trap_frame, (((struct sparc_stackf *)regs)-1), (TRACEREG_SZ+STACKFRAME_SZ)); + kernel_thread = (regs->tstate & TSTATE_PRIV) ? 1 : 0; + parent_sf = ((struct sparc_stackf *) regs) - 1; - t->flags = (t->flags & ~((0xffUL << TI_FLAG_CWP_SHIFT) | (0xffUL << TI_FLAG_CURRENT_DS_SHIFT))) | + /* Calculate offset to stack_frame & pt_regs */ + child_stack_sz = ((STACKFRAME_SZ + TRACEREG_SZ) + + (kernel_thread ? STACKFRAME_SZ : 0)); + child_trap_frame = (task_stack_page(p) + + (THREAD_SIZE - child_stack_sz)); + memcpy(child_trap_frame, parent_sf, child_stack_sz); + + t->flags = (t->flags & ~((0xffUL << TI_FLAG_CWP_SHIFT) | + (0xffUL << TI_FLAG_CURRENT_DS_SHIFT))) | (((regs->tstate + 1) & TSTATE_CWP) << TI_FLAG_CWP_SHIFT); t->new_child = 1; t->ksp = ((unsigned long) child_trap_frame) - STACK_BIAS; - t->kregs = (struct pt_regs *)(child_trap_frame+sizeof(struct sparc_stackf)); + t->kregs = (struct pt_regs *) (child_trap_frame + + sizeof(struct sparc_stackf)); t->fpsaved[0] = 0; - if (regs->tstate & TSTATE_PRIV) { + if (kernel_thread) { + struct sparc_stackf *child_sf = (struct sparc_stackf *) + (child_trap_frame + (STACKFRAME_SZ + TRACEREG_SZ)); + + /* Zero terminate the stack backtrace. */ + child_sf->fp = NULL; + t->kregs->u_regs[UREG_FP] = + ((unsigned long) child_sf) - STACK_BIAS; + /* Special case, if we are spawning a kernel thread from * a userspace task (via KMOD, NFS, or similar) we must * disable performance counters in the child because the @@ -681,12 +700,7 @@ int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, t->pcr_reg = 0; t->flags &= ~_TIF_PERFCTR; } - t->kregs->u_regs[UREG_FP] = t->ksp; t->flags |= ((long)ASI_P << TI_FLAG_CURRENT_DS_SHIFT); - flush_register_windows(); - memcpy((void *)(t->ksp + STACK_BIAS), - (void *)(regs->u_regs[UREG_FP] + STACK_BIAS), - sizeof(struct sparc_stackf)); t->kregs->u_regs[UREG_G6] = (unsigned long) t; t->kregs->u_regs[UREG_G4] = (unsigned long) t->task; } else { --
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