Documentation: English corrections in vmalloced kernel stacks
Minor grammar fixes in vmalloced-kernel-stacks Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619215944.GA3571421@lichtman.org
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@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Kernel stack overflows are often hard to debug and make the kernel
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susceptible to exploits. Problems could show up at a later time making
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it difficult to isolate and root-cause.
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Virtually-mapped kernel stacks with guard pages causes kernel stack
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Virtually mapped kernel stacks with guard pages cause kernel stack
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overflows to be caught immediately rather than causing difficult to
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diagnose corruptions.
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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ enable this bool configuration option. The requirements are:
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VMAP_STACK
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----------
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VMAP_STACK bool configuration option when enabled allocates virtually
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When enabled, the VMAP_STACK bool configuration option allocates virtually
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mapped task stacks. This option depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK.
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- Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
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@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ the latest code base:
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Allocation
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-----------
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When a new kernel thread is created, thread stack is allocated from
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When a new kernel thread is created, a thread stack is allocated from
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virtually contiguous memory pages from the page level allocator. These
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pages are mapped into contiguous kernel virtual space with PAGE_KERNEL
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protections.
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@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ with PAGE_KERNEL protections.
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- This does not address interrupt stacks - according to the original patch
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Thread stack allocation is initiated from clone(), fork(), vfork(),
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kernel_thread() via kernel_clone(). Leaving a few hints for searching
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the code base to understand when and how thread stack is allocated.
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kernel_thread() via kernel_clone(). These are a few hints for searching
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the code base to understand when and how a thread stack is allocated.
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Bulk of the code is in:
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`kernel/fork.c <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/fork.c>`.
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