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>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/tile/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 4b7cef9e94e0..c1467ac59ce6 100644
--- a/arch/tile/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/tile/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
-void arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *info);
+void arch_release_thread_stack(unsigned long *stack);
 
 /* How to get the thread information struct from C. */
 register unsigned long stack_pointer __asm__("sp");
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
index 6b705ccc9cc1..a465d8372edd 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
@@ -73,8 +73,9 @@ void arch_cpu_idle(void)
 /*
  * Release a thread_info structure
  */
-void arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *info)
+void arch_release_thread_stack(unsigned long *stack)
 {
+	struct thread_info *info = (void *)stack;
 	struct single_step_state *step_state = info->step_state;
 
 	if (step_state) {