linux/arch/mn10300
Linus Torvalds b235beea9e Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators
We've had the thread info allocated together with the thread stack for
most architectures for a long time (since the thread_info was split off
from the task struct), but that is about to change.

But the patches that move the thread info to be off-stack (and a part of
the task struct instead) made it clear how confused the allocator and
freeing functions are.

Because the common case was that we share an allocation with the thread
stack and the thread_info, the two pointers were identical.  That
identity then meant that we would have things like

	ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node);
	...
	tsk->stack = ti;

which certainly _worked_ (since stack and thread_info have the same
value), but is rather confusing: why are we assigning a thread_info to
the stack? And if we move the thread_info away, the "confusing" code
just gets to be entirely bogus.

So remove all this confusion, and make it clear that we are doing the
stack allocation by renaming and clarifying the function names to be
about the stack.  The fact that the thread_info then shares the
allocation is an implementation detail, and not really about the
allocation itself.

This is a pure renaming and type fix: we pass in the same pointer, it's
just that we clarify what the pointer means.

The ia64 code that actually only has one single allocation (for all of
task_struct, thread_info and kernel thread stack) now looks a bit odd,
but since "tsk->stack" is actually not even used there, that oddity
doesn't matter.  It would be a separate thing to clean that up, I
intentionally left the ia64 changes as a pure brute-force renaming and
type change.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
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boot kbuild: delete unnecessary "@:" 2016-04-20 10:36:57 +02:00
configs arch/defconfig: remove CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
include Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
kernel Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00
lib Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
mm mn10300: convert to dma_map_ops 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
oprofile MN10300: Kill MN10300's own profiling Kconfig 2009-04-09 10:53:16 -07:00
proc-mn2ws0050 Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
proc-mn103e010 MN10300: Create general kernel debugger cache flushing 2011-03-18 16:54:30 +00:00
unit-asb2303 mn10300: don't use module_init in non-modular flash.c code 2015-06-16 14:12:30 -04:00
unit-asb2305 PCI: Revert "PCI: Call pci_read_bridge_bases() from core instead of arch code" 2015-09-15 13:18:04 -05:00
unit-asb2364 mn10300: Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2014-03-04 21:47:51 +01:00
Kconfig exit_thread: remove empty bodies 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
Kconfig.debug consolidate per-arch stack overflow debugging options 2013-07-04 11:25:39 -07:00
Makefile mn10300: Remove redundant debugging info flag 2014-01-28 10:57:06 +01:00