[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 130/130] Revert "sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch"

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Date	Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:20:02 +0200
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3.19.8-ckt6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 512255a2ad2c832ca7d4de9f31245f73781922d0 upstream.

This reverts commit:

  2c7577a75837 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch")

It was a nice speedup.  It's also not quite correct: SYSENTER
enables interrupts too early.

We can re-add this optimization once the SYSENTER code is beaten
into shape, which should happen in 4.3 or 4.4.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/85f56651f59f76624e80785a8fd3bdfdd089a818.1439838962.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 751bf4b..d7f3b3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ do {									\
 #else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
 
 /* frame pointer must be last for get_wchan */
-#define SAVE_CONTEXT    "pushq %%rbp ; movq %%rsi,%%rbp\n\t"
-#define RESTORE_CONTEXT "movq %%rbp,%%rsi ; popq %%rbp\t"
+#define SAVE_CONTEXT    "pushf ; pushq %%rbp ; movq %%rsi,%%rbp\n\t"
+#define RESTORE_CONTEXT "movq %%rbp,%%rsi ; popq %%rbp ; popf\t"
 
 #define __EXTRA_CLOBBER  \
 	, "rcx", "rbx", "rdx", "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11", \
-	  "r12", "r13", "r14", "r15", "flags"
+	  "r12", "r13", "r14", "r15"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 #define __switch_canary							  \
@@ -100,11 +100,7 @@ do {									\
 #define __switch_canary_iparam
 #endif	/* CC_STACKPROTECTOR */
 
-/*
- * There is no need to save or restore flags, because flags are always
- * clean in kernel mode, with the possible exception of IOPL.  Kernel IOPL
- * has no effect.
- */
+/* Save restore flags to clear handle leaking NT */
 #define switch_to(prev, next, last) \
 	asm volatile(SAVE_CONTEXT					  \
 	     "movq %%rsp,%P[threadrsp](%[prev])\n\t" /* save RSP */	  \
-- 
1.9.1

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[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 130/130] Revert "sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch" Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> - 2015-08-28 00:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 130/130] Revert "sched/x86_64: Don't save flags  on context switch" Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-29 18:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 130/130] Revert "sched/x86_64: Don't save  flags on context switch" Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> - 2015-08-31 18:10 +0200

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