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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> | 2015-04-02 12:41:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-04-03 08:30:44 +0200 |
| commit | cf9328cc9989e028fdc64d8c0a7b1b043dc96735 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e84c35b8509621f893621a20484d3ba20ae8b15 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu | |
| parent | ff8287f36381deff729aa4e7b02296a080519fd0 (diff) | |
x86/asm/entry/32: Stop caching MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP in tss.sp1
We write a stack pointer to MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP exactly once,
and we unnecessarily cache the value in tss.sp1. We never
read the cached value.
Remove all of the caching. It serves no purpose.
Suggested-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/05a0163eb33ef5208363f0015496855da7cebadd.1428002830.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 71e4adcb15f1..a383d53bf0ed 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -976,15 +976,16 @@ void enable_sep_cpu(void) goto out; /* - * The struct::SS1 and tss_struct::SP1 fields are not used by the hardware, - * we cache the SYSENTER CS and ESP values there for easy access: + * We cache MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS's value in the TSS's ss1 field -- + * see the big comment in struct x86_hw_tss's definition. */ tss->x86_tss.ss1 = __KERNEL_CS; wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, tss->x86_tss.ss1, 0); - tss->x86_tss.sp1 = (unsigned long)tss + offsetofend(struct tss_struct, SYSENTER_stack); - wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, tss->x86_tss.sp1, 0); + wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, + (unsigned long)tss + offsetofend(struct tss_struct, SYSENTER_stack), + 0); wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, (unsigned long)ia32_sysenter_target, 0); |