On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> wrote: >> 64-bit syscalls currently have an optimization in which they are >> called with partial pt_regs. A small handful require full pt_regs. >> >> In the 32-bit and compat cases, I cleaned this up by forcing full >> pt_regs for all syscalls. The performance hit doesn't really matter. >> >> I want to clean up the 64-bit case as well, but I don't want to hurt >> fast path performance. To do that, I want to force the syscalls >> that use pt_regs onto the slow path. This will enable us to make >> slow path syscalls be real ABI-compliant C functions. >> >> Use the new syscall entry qualification machinery for this. >> stub_clone is now stub_clone/ptregs. >> >> The next patch will eliminate the stubs, and we'll just have >> sys_clone/ptregs.
[Resend after gmail web interface fail] I've got an idea on how to do this without the duplicate syscall table. ptregs_foo: leaq sys_foo(%rip), %rax jmp stub_ptregs_64 stub_ptregs_64: testl $TS_EXTRAREGS, <current->ti_status> jnz 1f SAVE_EXTRA_REGS call *%rax RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS ret 1: call *%rax ret This makes sure that the extra regs don't get saved a second time if coming in from the slow path, but preserves the fast path if not tracing. -- Brian Gerst -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/