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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2006-12-07 02:14:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2006-12-07 02:14:02 +0100 |
| commit | f95d47caae5302a63d92be9a0292abc90e2a14e1 (patch) | |
| tree | cfa963975d104c56aba28df6c941759175ed4b98 /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 62111195800d80c66cdc69063ea3145878c99fbf (diff) | |
| download | linux-f95d47caae5302a63d92be9a0292abc90e2a14e1.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] i386: Use %gs as the PDA base-segment in the kernel
This patch is the meat of the PDA change. This patch makes several related
changes:
1: Most significantly, %gs is now used in the kernel. This means that on
entry, the old value of %gs is saved away, and it is reloaded with
__KERNEL_PDA.
2: entry.S constructs the stack in the shape of struct pt_regs, and this
is passed around the kernel so that the process's saved register
state can be accessed.
Unfortunately struct pt_regs doesn't currently have space for %gs
(or %fs). This patch extends pt_regs to add space for gs (no space
is allocated for %fs, since it won't be used, and it would just
complicate the code in entry.S to work around the space).
3: Because %gs is now saved on the stack like %ds, %es and the integer
registers, there are a number of places where it no longer needs to
be handled specially; namely context switch, and saving/restoring the
register state in a signal context.
4: And since kernel threads run in kernel space and call normal kernel
code, they need to be created with their %gs == __KERNEL_PDA.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 8cdd3e72ba55..fd22245e3881 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ fork_out: return ERR_PTR(retval); } -struct pt_regs * __devinit __attribute__((weak)) idle_regs(struct pt_regs *regs) +noinline struct pt_regs * __devinit __attribute__((weak)) idle_regs(struct pt_regs *regs) { memset(regs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs)); return regs; |