Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] kernel.h: drop STACK_MAGIC macro
From: Andi Shyti
Date: Tue Dec 09 2025 - 10:59:18 EST
Hi Yuri,
On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 12:52:32PM -0500, Yury Norov (NVIDIA) wrote:
> The macro was introduced in 1994, v1.0.4, for stacks protection. Since
> that, people found better ways to protect stacks, and now the macro is
> only used by i915 selftests. Move it to a local header and drop from
> the kernel.h.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Andi