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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] x86: drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable from 64 bit.
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:03:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311588187-20079-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311587883.27940.20.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk>

On 64 bit x86 we save the current eflags in cpu_init for use in ret_from_fork.
Strictly speaking reserved bits in EFLAGS should be read as written but in
practise it is unlikely that EFLAGS could ever be extended in this way and the
kernel alread clears any undefined flags early on

The equivalent 32 bit code simply hard codes 0x0202 as the new EFLAGS (fixed to
use symbolic constants in a subsequent patch).

This change makes 64 bit use the same mechanism to setup the initial EFLAGS on
fork. Note that 64 bit resets EFLAGS before calling schedule_tail() as opposed
to 32 bit which calls schedule_tail() first. Therefore the correct value for
EFLAGS has opposite IF bit. This will be fixed in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |    1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c     |    4 ----
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S       |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 2193715..698af88 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ DECLARE_INIT_PER_CPU(irq_stack_union);
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(char *, irq_stack_ptr);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, irq_count);
-extern unsigned long kernel_eflags;
 extern asmlinkage void ignore_sysret(void);
 #else	/* X86_64 */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 22a073d..178c3b4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1077,8 +1077,6 @@ void syscall_init(void)
 	       X86_EFLAGS_TF|X86_EFLAGS_DF|X86_EFLAGS_IF|X86_EFLAGS_IOPL);
 }
 
-unsigned long kernel_eflags;
-
 /*
  * Copies of the original ist values from the tss are only accessed during
  * debugging, no special alignment required.
@@ -1231,8 +1229,6 @@ void __cpuinit cpu_init(void)
 	fpu_init();
 	xsave_init();
 
-	raw_local_save_flags(kernel_eflags);
-
 	if (is_uv_system())
 		uv_cpu_init();
 }
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index e13329d..b50d142 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
 
 	LOCK ; btr $TIF_FORK,TI_flags(%r8)
 
-	pushq_cfi kernel_eflags(%rip)
+	pushq_cfi $0x0002
 	popfq_cfi				# reset kernel eflags
 
 	call schedule_tail			# rdi: 'prev' task parameter
-- 
1.7.2.5


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-25  9:58 [PATCH 0/3] minor cleanups to EFLAGS initialisation in ret_from_fork Ian Campbell
2011-07-25 10:03 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2011-07-25 10:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: make 64 bit ret_from_fork a little more similar to 32 bit Ian Campbell
2011-07-25 10:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: ret_from_fork: use symbolic contants for bits in EFLAGS Ian Campbell
2011-07-25 10:19 ` [PATCH 0/3] minor cleanups to EFLAGS initialisation in ret_from_fork Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-25 18:20   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-25 21:10     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-25 21:47       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-26 14:46         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-26 15:51           ` Ian Campbell
2011-08-10 15:27           ` Ian Campbell
2011-08-10 15:35             ` Peter Zijlstra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-05 11:15 [Q x86-64] on kernel_eflags Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-05 13:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable from 64 bit Ian Campbell
2011-07-05 13:28   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-06  9:25     ` Ian Campbell
2011-07-06  9:46       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-06  9:57         ` Ian Campbell
2011-07-06 10:12           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-06  9:39   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-06 23:17     ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-07  0:00       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-09 15:56 [PATCH 0/3] x86: slightly unify ret_from_fork Ian Campbell
2010-02-09 15:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable from 64 bit Ian Campbell

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