Re: [PATCH] arm: get rid of hardcoded assumptions about kernel stack size

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:50:22PM +0100, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> Changing kernel stack size on arm is not as simple as it should be:
> 1) THRED_SIZE macro doen't respect PAGE_SIZE and THREAD_SIZE_ORDER

THREAD_SIZE

> 2) stack size is hardcoded in get_thread_info macro
> 
> This patch fixes it by caculating THREAD_SIZE and thread_info address
> taking into account PAGE_SIZE and THREAD_SIZE_ORDER.
> 
> Now changing stack size becomes simply changing THREAD_SIZE_ORDER.

Curious: is this just a cleanup, or are you actually running out of kernel
stack on an ARM platform?

Will
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