* Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote:
> >
> >> > The only low level bits remaining in assembly will be low level hardware
> >> > ABI
> >> > details: saving registers and restoring registers to the expected format
> >> > - no
> >> > 'active' code whatsoever.
> >>
> >> I think this is true for syscalls. Getting the weird special cases (IRET
> >> and
> >> GS fault) for error_entry to work correctly in C could be tricky.
> >
> > Correct, and I double checked the IRET fault path yesterday
> > (fixup_bad_iret),
> > and it looks like a straightforward exception handler with limited control
> > flow. It can stay in asm just fine, it seems mostly orthogonal to the rest.
> >
> > I didn't check the GS fault path, but that only affects 32-bit, as we use
> > SWAPGS on 64-bit, right? In any case, that code too (32-bit RESTORE_REGS)
> > belongs into the natural 'hardware ABI preparation code' that should stay
> > in
> > assembly. (Unless I missed some other code that might cause trouble.)
>
> Look for "gs_change". To change the gs selector, we do swapgs, then load gs,
> then swapgs again. If the gs load fails, then we trigger a special fixup.
Yes, but I don't see the connection to moving the syscall (and IRQ) entry code
to
.c: native_load_gs_index() is a separate API we call from regular kernel code,
and
it has a regular exception fixup entry plus a trap handler special case.
It's fine in entry_64.S, but it would be equally fine in inline asm() as well.
I think it's fine in entry_64.S as long as the error trap code (which refers to
the change_gs RIP) lives there. But it could live in .c as well, as we can
generate global symbols within inline asm() too.
Thanks,
Ingo
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