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[PATCH 2/2] x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 2/2] x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
Date 2015-07-27 01:30 +0200
Message-ID <pQDwL-NF-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Xen's raw SYSCALL entries are much less weird than native.  Rather
than fudging them to look like native entries, use the Xen-provided
stack frame directly.

This lets us eliminate entry_SYSCALL_64_after_swapgs and two uses
of the SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK paravirt hook.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S        |  9 +--------
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S |  2 +-
 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_64.S        | 24 ++++++++++--------------
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index f47996910331..ebe7e2ca19fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -134,14 +134,7 @@ ENTRY(entry_SYSCALL_64)
 	 * We do not frame this tiny irq-off block with TRACE_IRQS_OFF/ON,
 	 * it is too small to ever cause noticeable irq latency.
 	 */
-	SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK
-	/*
-	 * A hypervisor implementation might want to use a label
-	 * after the swapgs, so that it can do the swapgs
-	 * for the guest and jump here on syscall.
-	 */
-GLOBAL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_swapgs)
-
+	swapgs
 	movq	%rsp, PER_CPU_VAR(rsp_scratch)
 	movq	PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack), %rsp
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S
index d39495d6446e..beae2b75b588 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ ENTRY(entry_SYSCALL_compat)
 	 * We do not frame this tiny irq-off block with TRACE_IRQS_OFF/ON,
 	 * it is too small to ever cause noticeable irq latency.
 	 */
-	SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK
+	swapgs
 	movl	%esp, %r8d
 	movq	PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack), %rsp
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_64.S b/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_64.S
index f22667abf7b9..c2b5868a9967 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_64.S
@@ -100,34 +100,30 @@ RELOC(xen_sysret32, 1b+1)
  *	rip
  *	r11
  * rsp->rcx
- *
- * In all the entrypoints, we undo all that to make it look like a
- * CPU-generated syscall/sysenter and jump to the normal entrypoint.
  */
 
-.macro undo_xen_syscall
-	mov 0*8(%rsp), %rcx
-	mov 1*8(%rsp), %r11
-	mov 5*8(%rsp), %rsp
-.endm
-
 /* Normal 64-bit system call target */
 ENTRY(xen_syscall_target)
-	undo_xen_syscall
-	jmp entry_SYSCALL_64_after_swapgs
+	popq %rcx
+	popq %r11
+	jmp entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
 ENDPROC(xen_syscall_target)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
 
 /* 32-bit compat syscall target */
 ENTRY(xen_syscall32_target)
-	undo_xen_syscall
-	jmp entry_SYSCALL_compat
+	popq %rcx
+	popq %r11
+	movl (3*8)(%rsp), %r8d		/* r8d = user esp */
+	jmp entry_SYSCALL_compat_after_hwframe_esp_in_r8d
 ENDPROC(xen_syscall32_target)
 
 /* 32-bit compat sysenter target */
 ENTRY(xen_sysenter_target)
-	undo_xen_syscall
+	mov 0*8(%rsp), %rcx
+	mov 1*8(%rsp), %r11
+	mov 5*8(%rsp), %rsp
 	jmp entry_SYSENTER_compat
 ENDPROC(xen_sysenter_target)
 
-- 
2.4.3

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[PATCH 0/2] x86_64, xen: Simplify Xen SYSCALL handling Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2015-07-27 01:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] x86/entry/64: Rearrange SYSCALL entry points for Xen's benefit Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2015-07-27 01:30 +0200
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