Re: [PATCH v3 06/15] powerpc/32: prepare for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

From: Andrew Donnellan
Date: Thu Oct 17 2019 - 03:36:39 EST


On 10/9/19 7:16 pm, Christophe Leroy wrote:
+#if defined(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK) && CONFIG_THREAD_SHIFT < PAGE_SHIFT
+#define THREAD_SHIFT PAGE_SHIFT
+#else
#define THREAD_SHIFT CONFIG_THREAD_SHIFT
+#endif

#define THREAD_SIZE (1 << THREAD_SHIFT)


Looking at 64-bit book3s: with 64K pages, this results in a THREAD_SIZE that's too large for immediate mode arithmetic operations, which is annoying. Hmm.

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Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
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