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Subject[PATCH 1/3] ARM 4Kstacks: Add support for 4K kernel stacks to ARM
This saves 4K per kernel thread and user-space process.
For systems with lots of threads, this can save
100s of K of memory.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h | 7 ++++++-
arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S | 4 ++--
arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 3146ed3..321ee11 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1555,6 +1555,19 @@ config OABI_COMPAT
UNPREDICTABLE (in fact it can be predicted that it won't work
at all). If in doubt say Y.

+config 4KSTACKS
+ bool "Use 4K kernel stacks instead of 8K"
+ default n
+ help
+ This option will use less memory for each kernel stack in the
+ system, which can save potentially hundreds of kilobytes of memory.
+ It also helps reduce fragmentation in kernel memory. However,
+ it can be dangerous since not all kernel code paths are thrifty
+ in their use of the stack. Unless you have carefully monitored your
+ kernel stack usage and verified that your programs and kernel
+ usage patterns will not overflow 4K, you should leave this set
+ to N.
+
config ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
bool

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 7b5cc8d..3021d06 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <asm/fpstate.h>

+#ifndef CONFIG_4KSTACKS
#define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER 1
-#define THREAD_SIZE 8192
+#else
+#define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER 0
+#endif
+
+#define THREAD_SIZE (4096 << THREAD_SIZE_ORDER)
#define THREAD_START_SP (THREAD_SIZE - 8)

#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
index 9a8531e..c818505 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@
.endm

.macro get_thread_info, rd
- mov \rd, sp, lsr #13
- mov \rd, \rd, lsl #13
+ mov \rd, sp, lsr #12 + THREAD_SIZE_ORDER
+ mov \rd, \rd, lsl #12 + THREAD_SIZE_ORDER
.endm

@
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
index 307a4de..27c0907 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
* act_mm - get current->active_mm
*/
.macro act_mm, rd
- bic \rd, sp, #8128
- bic \rd, \rd, #63
+ mov \rd, sp, lsr #12 + THREAD_SIZE_ORDER
+ mov \rd, \rd, lsl #12 + THREAD_SIZE_ORDER
ldr \rd, [\rd, #TI_TASK]
ldr \rd, [\rd, #TSK_ACTIVE_MM]
.endm
--
1.6.6


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