Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/7] powerpc: regain entire stack space

From: Nicholas Piggin
Date: Wed Oct 03 2018 - 01:34:58 EST


On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:30:25 +0000 (UTC)
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote:

> thread_info is not anymore in the stack, so the entire stack
> can now be used.

Nice.

>
> In the meantime, all pointers to the stacks are not anymore
> pointers to thread_info so this patch changes them to void*

Wasn't this previously effectively already the case with patch
3/7? You had thread_info sized space left there, but it was not
used or initialized right? Does it make sense to move this part
of it to the previous patch?

Thanks,
Nick