Re: [patch 01/20] idle: Move x86ism out of generic code

[Will Deacon]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:35:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > >         arch_cpu_idle_prepare();
> > >         cpu_idle_loop();
> > >  }
> > 
> > Does this actually work with stack protector enabled?
> > boot_init_stack_canary() is inlined while arch_cpu_idle_prepare() is
> > not.
> 
> Stupid me. No it does of course not. I could have sworn that I tested that,
> but obvioulsy not.
> 
> I drop that patch, but actually the real question is whether we can drop that
> '#ifdef x86' around that boot_init_stack_canary() invocation.
> 
> AFAICT, neither arm, arm64 nor mips and sh call it on anything else than the
> boot cpu. I can't see why that would be an issue on those architectures and
> why it would be a problem if the boot cpu calls it again here.
> 
> CC'ed the relevant maintainers. Is there any issue with the patch below?

On arm[64], the canary is unfortunately global, so I don't think it would
be safe to update it live like this without effectively stopping the
machine and forcing everybody into idle.

Will