[PATCH 0/1] sparc64: unify thread stack sizing and add explicit 32KB stack

From: Tony Rodriguez

Date: Tue May 19 2026 - 03:58:50 EST


This patch fixes a reproducible stack exhaustion issue on SPARC64
that occurs during USB hub enumeration. This regression may have
started sometime after kernel v6.12. With the default 16KB kernel
stack, the following panic is triggered early in boot:

[ 25.528399] Call Trace:
[ 25.528403] [<0000000000433cd4>] dump_stack+0x8/0x18
[ 25.528419] [<00000000004297ac>] vpanic+0xdc/0x318
[ 25.528429] [<0000000000429a0c>] panic+0x24/0x30
[ 25.528436] [<0000000000be2280>] __schedule+0xa8/0x7bc
[ 25.528445] [<0000000000be2b60>] schedule+0x24/0x4c
[ 25.528452] [<0000000000be6970>] schedule_timeout+0xc8/0xe4
[ 25.528459] [<0000000000be3318>] __wait_for_common+0x78/0xf0
[ 25.528466] [<0000000000be3550>] wait_for_completion_timeout+0x1c/0x2c
[ 25.528473] [<000000001005e2f4>] usb_start_wait_urb+0x68/0x128 [usbcore]
[ 25.528502] [<000000001005e468>] usb_control_msg+0xb4/0xf8 [usbcore]
[ 25.528518] [<0000000010051180>] set_port_feature+0x44/0x54 [usbcore]
[ 25.528530] [<00000000100530f0>] hub_power_on+0xc8/0xe8 [usbcore]
[ 25.528543] [<0000000010054fd8>] hub_activate+0x12c/0x644 [usbcore]
[ 25.528557] [<0000000010059438>] hub_probe+0xdd4/0xeb0 [usbcore]
[ 25.528570] [<0000000010062360>] usb_probe_interface+0x234/0x26c [usbcore]
[ 25.528585] [<0000000000a10a40>] really_probe+0x1ac/0x3b0

This is caused by large SPARC64 trapframes, register-window spills,
and deep call paths in usbcore. A 16KB stack is insufficient for
this workload.

The new logic is:

SPARC64:
THREAD_SIZE = 4 * PAGE_SIZE (32KB)
THREAD_SHIFT = PAGE_SHIFT + 2
THREAD_SIZE_ORDER = 2

Non‑SPARC64 with PAGE_SHIFT == 13:
Retains the existing 16KB stack behavior

Fallback:
Retains the existing 8KB stack behavior

Signed-off-by: Tony Rodriguez <unixpro1970@xxxxxxxxx>


Tony Rodriguez (1):
sparc64: unify thread stack sizing and add explicit 32KB stack

arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_64.h | 28 ++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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