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Roland McGrath 54a0151041 asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call 
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler
clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions
is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs.  The tail/sibling-call
optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use
stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent.
Other optimizations can do it too.

Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the
compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all
the manifestations of this issue that crop up.

More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument
variables live at the end of the function.  This makes their original
stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler
tends not clobber them for something else.  It's still no guarantee, but
it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
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irq genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irq 2008-02-19 10:43:58 +01:00
power Merge branches 'release' and 'doc' into release 2008-03-13 01:59:53 -04:00
time clocksource: revert: use init_timer_deferrable for clocksource_watchdog 2008-03-25 20:13:25 +01:00
.gitignore Update kernel/.gitignore with new auto-generated files 2008-02-09 23:27:01 -08:00
acct.c bsd_acct: using task_struct->tgid is not right in pid-namespaces 2008-03-24 19:22:20 -07:00
audit_tree.c Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
audit.c audit: silence two kerneldoc warnings in kernel/audit.c 2008-03-28 14:45:21 -07:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] Audit: Fix the format type for size_t variables 2008-03-01 07:16:06 -05:00
backtracetest.c x86: add a simple backtrace test module 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +01:00
capability.c Add 64-bit capability support to the kernel 2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
cgroup_debug.c
cgroup.c cgroups: add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time 2008-04-04 14:46:26 -07:00
compat.c hrtimer: don't modify restart_block->fn in restart functions 2008-02-10 10:48:03 +01:00
configs.c
cpu.c cpu: fix section mismatch warnings for enable_nonboot_cpus 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
cpuset.c cpusets: fix obsolete comment 2008-03-05 17:53:33 -08:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call 2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c memcgroup: fix spurious EBUSY on memory cgroup removal 2008-03-28 14:45:21 -07:00
futex_compat.c futex_compat __user annotation 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
futex.c NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/* 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: catch expired CLOCK_REALTIME timers early 2008-02-14 22:08:30 +01:00
itimer.c ITIMER_REAL: convert to use struct pid 2008-02-08 09:22:29 -08:00
kallsyms.c remove support for un-needed _extratext section 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -08:00
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt rcu: move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPT 2008-03-10 18:01:20 -07:00
kexec.c vmcoreinfo: add "VMCOREINFO_" to all the call for vmcoreinfo_append_str() 2008-02-07 08:42:25 -08:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c Dont touch fs_struct in usermodehelper 2008-02-14 21:13:32 -08:00
kprobes.c kprobes: fix a null pointer bug in register_kretprobe() 2008-03-04 16:35:19 -08:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep.c Subject: lockdep: include all lock classes in all_lock_classes 2008-02-25 23:03:02 +01:00
Makefile avoid overflows in kernel/time.c 2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
marker.c markers: use synchronize_sched() 2008-04-02 15:28:19 -07:00
module.c modules: warn about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook 2008-03-10 18:01:20 -07:00
mutex-debug.c kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
mutex.h
notifier.c kernel/notifier.c should #include <linux/reboot.h> 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c namespaces: move the IPC namespace under IPC_NS option 2008-02-08 09:22:23 -08:00
panic.c ACPI: Taint kernel on ACPI table override (format corrected) 2008-02-06 22:07:51 -05:00
params.c Add new string functions strict_strto* and convert kernel params to use them 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
pid_namespace.c namespaces: cleanup the code managed with PID_NS option 2008-02-08 09:22:23 -08:00
pid.c kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
pm_qos_params.c pm qos infrastructure and interface 2008-02-05 09:44:22 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Use find_task_by_vpid in posix timers 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
posix-timers.c hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow 2008-02-14 22:08:30 +01:00
printk.c Make printk() console semaphore accesses sensible 2008-03-24 19:25:08 -07:00
profile.c Nuke a duplicate include from profile.c 2008-02-08 09:22:34 -08:00
ptrace.c ptrace_check_attach: remove unneeded ->signal != NULL check 2008-02-08 09:22:26 -08:00
rcuclassic.c
rcupdate.c rcupdate: fix comment 2008-02-13 16:21:18 -08:00
rcupreempt_trace.c
rcupreempt.c rcupreempt: remove never-migrates assumption from rcu_process_callbacks() 2008-02-29 20:21:13 +01:00
rcutorture.c
relay.c relay: set an spd_release() hook for splice 2008-03-26 12:04:09 +01:00
res_counter.c Memory Resource Controller use strstrip while parsing arguments 2008-03-04 16:35:09 -08:00
resource.c [POWERPC] Add arch-specific walk_memory_remove() for 64-bit powerpc 2008-02-08 19:52:48 +11:00
rtmutex_common.h Don't operate with pid_t in rtmutex tester 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.c Don't operate with pid_t in rtmutex tester 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c hrtimer: more hrtimer_init_sleeper() fallout. 2008-02-13 15:45:36 +01:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_debug.c sched: improve affine wakeups 2008-03-19 04:27:53 +01:00
sched_fair.c sched: cleanup old and rarely used 'debug' features. 2008-03-21 16:43:47 +01:00
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c sched: balance RT task resched only on runqueue 2008-03-07 16:43:00 +01:00
sched_stats.h
sched.c NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on() 2008-03-26 08:28:55 +01:00
seccomp.c
signal.c freezer vs stopped or traced 2008-03-04 07:59:54 -08:00
softirq.c rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu 2008-02-29 18:46:50 +01:00
softlockup.c softlockup: fix task state setting 2008-02-29 18:46:53 +01:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c make srcu_readers_active() static 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stopmachine: semaphore to mutex 2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
sys_ni.c timerfd: new timerfd API 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
sys.c Pidns: make full use of xxx_vnr() calls 2008-02-08 09:22:29 -08:00
sysctl_check.c constify tables in kernel/sysctl_check.c 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
sysctl.c sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changes 2008-03-04 17:54:06 +01:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c kprobes: kretprobe user entry-handler 2008-02-06 10:41:11 -08:00
time.c avoid overflows in kernel/time.c 2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
timeconst.pl timeconst.pl: correct reversal of USEC_TO_HZ and HZ_TO_USEC 2008-02-12 14:29:26 -08:00
timer.c NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on() 2008-03-26 08:28:55 +01:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call 2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
user_namespace.c namespaces: cleanup the code managed with the USER_NS option 2008-02-08 09:22:23 -08:00
user.c sched: rt-group: make rt groups scheduling configurable 2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
wait.c kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
workqueue.c workqueue: make delayed_work_timer_fn() static 2008-02-08 09:22:37 -08:00