Re: [PATCH 18/25] [PATCH] turn priviled operations into macros in entry.S

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 15:58:06 Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:

> On 8/8/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > > +#define SYSRETQ                                              \
> > > +                     movq    %gs:pda_oldrsp,%rsp;    \
> > > +                     swapgs;                         \
> > > +                     sysretq;
> >
> > When the macro does more than sysret it should have a different
> > name
> That's fair. Again, suggestions are welcome. Maybe SYSCALL_RETURN ?

Sounds reasonable.

> > >  retint_restore_args:
> > > -     cli
> > > +     DISABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_ANY)
> >
> > Similar.
> I don't think so. They are live here, but restore_args follows, so we
> can safely clobber anything here. Right?

The non argument registers cannot be clobbered.



-Andi
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