On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 09:07:32AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This will simplify future changes that want scratch variables early in
> the SYSENTER handler -- they'll be able to spill registers to the
> stack. It also lets us get rid of a SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK user.
>
> This does not depend on CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION because we'll want the
> stack space even without IA32 emulation.
>
> As far as I can tell, the reason that this wasn't done from day 1 is
> that we use IST for #DB and #BP, which is IMO rather nasty and causes
> a lot more problems than it solves. But, since #DB uses IST, we don't
> actually need a real stack for SYSENTER (because SYSENTER with TF set
> will invoke #DB on the IST stack rather than the SYSENTER stack).
> I want to remove IST usage from these vectors some day, and this patch
> is a prerequisite for that as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 2 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 3 ---
> arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c | 5 -----
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 +++-
> arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 --
> arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 3 +--
> 7 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
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Boris.
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