Re: [patch V2 03/29] x86/irq/64: Remove a hardcoded irq_stack_union access

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Fri Apr 05 2019 - 13:18:48 EST


On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 09:37:27AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 05:07:01PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > stack_overflow_check() is using both irq_stack_ptr and irq_stack_union to
> > find the IRQ stack. That's going to break when vmapped irq stacks are
> > introduced.
> >
> > Change it to just use irq_stack_ptr.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
> > @@ -55,9 +55,8 @@ static inline void stack_overflow_check(
> > regs->sp <= curbase + THREAD_SIZE)
> > return;
> >
> > - irq_stack_top = (u64)this_cpu_ptr(irq_stack_union.irq_stack) +
> > - STACK_TOP_MARGIN;
> > irq_stack_bottom = (u64)__this_cpu_read(irq_stack_ptr);
> > + irq_stack_top = irq_stack_bottom - IRQ_STACK_SIZE + STACK_TOP_MARGIN;
>
> Not introduced in this patch, but the names for top and bottom are flipped,
> both for irq_stack and estack. STACK_TOP_MARGIN should also be
> STACK_BOTTOM_MARGIN. The actual checks are functionally correct, but holy
> hell does it make reading the code confusing, and the WARN prints backwards
> information.

I agree, but... one man's top is another man's bottom. Especially when
stacks grow physically down (as defined by Intel) but conceptually up
(as defined by every CS algorithms class ever).

--
Josh