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    s390: add support for virtually mapped kernel stacks · ce3dc447
    Martin Schwidefsky authored
    With virtually mapped kernel stacks the kernel stack overflow detection
    is now fault based, every stack has a guard page in the vmalloc space.
    The panic_stack is renamed to nodat_stack and is used for all function
    that need to run without DAT, e.g. memcpy_real or do_start_kdump.
    
    The main effect is a reduction in the kernel image size as with vmap
    stacks the old style overflow checking that adds two instructions per
    function is not needed anymore. Result from bloat-o-meter:
    
    add/remove: 20/1 grow/shrink: 13/26854 up/down: 2198/-216240 (-214042)
    
    In regard to performance the micro-benchmark for fork has a hit of a
    few microseconds, allocating 4 pages in vmalloc space is more expensive
    compare to an order-2 page allocation. But with real workload I could
    not find a noticeable difference.
    Acked-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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