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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-16 10:32:20 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-17 09:25:29 +0100
commit8b6c0ab1a1296ef6922160fa27018f25c60b8940 (patch)
tree274c64ca1d19d86bcd242129a43f2530844be919 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
parentd828c71fba8922b116b4ec56c3e5bca8c822d5ae (diff)
x86/asm/entry: Document and clean up the enable_sep_cpu() and syscall32_cpu_init() functions
Clean up the flow and document the functions a bit better. Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c42
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 7a3dfb1db78d..d79f139871e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -960,37 +960,53 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
+# ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
/* May not be __init: called during resume */
static void syscall32_cpu_init(void)
{
- /* Load these always in case some future AMD CPU supports
- SYSENTER from compat mode too. */
+ /*
+ * Always load these, in case some future 64-bit CPU supports
+ * SYSENTER from compat mode too:
+ */
wrmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, (u64)__KERNEL_CS);
wrmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, 0ULL);
wrmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, (u64)ia32_sysenter_target);
wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, ia32_cstar_target);
}
-#endif /* CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION */
-#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
+# endif
+#endif
+/*
+ * Set up the CPU state needed to execute SYSENTER/SYSEXIT instructions
+ * on 32-bit kernels:
+ */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
void enable_sep_cpu(void)
{
- int cpu = get_cpu();
- struct tss_struct *tss = &per_cpu(cpu_tss, cpu);
+ struct tss_struct *tss;
+ int cpu;
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP)) {
- put_cpu();
- return;
- }
+ cpu = get_cpu();
+ tss = &per_cpu(cpu_tss, cpu);
+
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP))
+ 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:
+ */
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_CS, __KERNEL_CS, 0);
wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, tss->x86_tss.sp1, 0);
- wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, (unsigned long) ia32_sysenter_target, 0);
+
+ wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, (unsigned long)ia32_sysenter_target, 0);
+
+out:
put_cpu();
}
#endif