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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index fc6d8d0d8d53..b26208998b7c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -209,9 +209,24 @@ struct x86_hw_tss { unsigned short back_link, __blh; unsigned long sp0; unsigned short ss0, __ss0h; - unsigned long sp1; - /* ss1 caches MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS: */ - unsigned short ss1, __ss1h; + + /* + * We don't use ring 1, so sp1 and ss1 are convenient scratch + * spaces in the same cacheline as sp0. We use them to cache + * some MSR values to avoid unnecessary wrmsr instructions. + * + * We use SYSENTER_ESP to find sp0 and for the NMI emergency + * stack, but we need to context switch it because we do + * horrible things to the kernel stack in vm86 mode. + * + * We use SYSENTER_CS to disable sysenter in vm86 mode to avoid + * corrupting the stack if we went through the sysenter path + * from vm86 mode. + */ + unsigned long sp1; /* MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP */ + unsigned short ss1; /* MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS */ + + unsigned short __ss1h; unsigned long sp2; unsigned short ss2, __ss2h; unsigned long __cr3; |