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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 16/51] x86/32: put real return address on stack in entry code
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:22:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/15/16 11:25, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:04:42AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> On 08/15/16 08:09, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:31:47AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>> This standardizes the stacks of idle tasks to be consistent with other
> >>>>> tasks on 32-bit.
> >>>>
> >>>> It might be nice to stick a ud2 or 1: hlt; jmp 1b or similar
> >>>> afterwards to make it clear that initial_code can't return.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, I'll do something like that.
> >>>
> >>
> >> "Standardizing the stack" how? A zero on the stack terminates the stack
> >> trace.
> >
> > Instead of zero, user tasks have a real return address at that spot.
> > This makes idle tasks consistent with that, so we have a well defined
> > "end of stack". Also it makes the stack trace more useful since it
> > shows what entry code was involved in calling into C.
> >
>
> So how is the stack terminated, and does things like kdb and kgdb need
> modifications? Or is there now a stack termination above the struct
> pt_regs?

Even in today's code, there's no real "terminator". The unwinder just
stops when it leaves the stack bounds. See print_context_stack() in
mainline.

--
Josh

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