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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2015-10-05 17:48:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-10-09 09:41:10 +0200 |
| commit | 39e8701f33d65c7f51d749a5d12a1379065e0926 (patch) | |
| tree | e3d2ea194d87f728df1c70f33f3eef26ea125d59 /arch/x86/entry | |
| parent | 7841b408717d4c3b1b334c8f1fef7f18c98cd2bd (diff) | |
| download | linux-39e8701f33d65c7f51d749a5d12a1379065e0926.tar.bz2 | |
x86/entry/32: Open-code return tracking from fork and kthreads
syscall_exit is going away, and return tracing is just a
function call now, so open-code the two non-syscall 32-bit
users.
While we're at it, update the big register layout comment.
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: 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>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a6b3c472fda7cda0e368c3ccd553dea7447dfdd2.1444091585.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S index a08ded481aba..36b6beb181f6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ * * entry_32.S contains the system-call and low-level fault and trap handling routines. * - * Stack layout in 'syscall_exit': + * Stack layout while running C code: * ptrace needs to have all registers on the stack. * If the order here is changed, it needs to be * updated in fork.c:copy_process(), signal.c:do_signal(), @@ -211,7 +211,11 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork) popl %eax pushl $0x0202 # Reset kernel eflags popfl - jmp syscall_exit + + /* When we fork, we trace the syscall return in the child, too. */ + movl %esp, %eax + call syscall_return_slowpath + jmp restore_all END(ret_from_fork) ENTRY(ret_from_kernel_thread) @@ -224,7 +228,15 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_kernel_thread) movl PT_EBP(%esp), %eax call *PT_EBX(%esp) movl $0, PT_EAX(%esp) - jmp syscall_exit + + /* + * Kernel threads return to userspace as if returning from a syscall. + * We should check whether anything actually uses this path and, if so, + * consider switching it over to ret_from_fork. + */ + movl %esp, %eax + call syscall_return_slowpath + jmp restore_all ENDPROC(ret_from_kernel_thread) /* |