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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2016-01-28 15:11:27 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-01-29 09:46:38 +0100
commit24d978b76ffd20ecff8a8d1c21b16fe740f8b119 (patch)
tree51e4d40347814b2a455656a5c1b1f3069a8a0211 /arch
parent46eabf06c04a6847a694a0c1413d4ac57e5b058a (diff)
x86/entry/64: Stop using int_ret_from_sys_call in ret_from_fork
ret_from_fork is now open-coded and is no longer tangled up with the syscall code. This isn't so bad -- this adds very little code, and IMO the result is much easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0747e2a5e47084655a1e96351c545b755c41fa7.1454022279.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S35
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index f7050a5d9dbc..cb5d940a7abd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ END(ptregs_\func)
* rdi: prev task we switched from
*/
ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
-
LOCK ; btr $TIF_FORK, TI_flags(%r8)
pushq $0x0002
@@ -398,28 +397,32 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
call schedule_tail /* rdi: 'prev' task parameter */
- RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS
-
testb $3, CS(%rsp) /* from kernel_thread? */
+ jnz 1f
/*
- * By the time we get here, we have no idea whether our pt_regs,
- * ti flags, and ti status came from the 64-bit SYSCALL fast path,
- * the slow path, or one of the 32-bit compat paths.
- * Use IRET code path to return, since it can safely handle
- * all of the above.
+ * We came from kernel_thread. This code path is quite twisted, and
+ * someone should clean it up.
+ *
+ * copy_thread_tls stashes the function pointer in RBX and the
+ * parameter to be passed in RBP. The called function is permitted
+ * to call do_execve and thereby jump to user mode.
*/
- jnz int_ret_from_sys_call
+ movq RBP(%rsp), %rdi
+ call *RBX(%rsp)
+ movl $0, RAX(%rsp)
/*
- * We came from kernel_thread
- * nb: we depend on RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS above
+ * Fall through as though we're exiting a syscall. This makes a
+ * twisted sort of sense if we just called do_execve.
*/
- movq %rbp, %rdi
- call *%rbx
- movl $0, RAX(%rsp)
- RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS
- jmp int_ret_from_sys_call
+
+1:
+ movq %rsp, %rdi
+ call syscall_return_slowpath /* returns with IRQs disabled */
+ TRACE_IRQS_ON /* user mode is traced as IRQS on */
+ SWAPGS
+ jmp restore_regs_and_iret
END(ret_from_fork)
/*