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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h index 5cb436acd463..fcc5cd387fd1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h @@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ static inline void prepare_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev, asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void); -/* data that is pointed to by thread.sp */ +/* + * This is the structure pointed to by thread.sp for an inactive task. The + * order of the fields must match the code in __switch_to_asm(). + */ struct inactive_task_frame { #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 unsigned long r15; @@ -48,6 +51,11 @@ struct inactive_task_frame { unsigned long di; #endif unsigned long bx; + + /* + * These two fields must be together. They form a stack frame header, + * needed by get_frame_pointer(). + */ unsigned long bp; unsigned long ret_addr; }; |