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authorBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>2016-08-13 18:38:20 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-24 12:31:50 +0200
commit616d24835eeafa8ef3466479db028abfdfc77531 (patch)
tree855895f0566a9c7b7b1996cbee1a384995b5a068 /arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
parentsched/x86: Rewrite the switch_to() code (diff)
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sched/x86: Pass kernel thread parameters in 'struct fork_frame'
Instead of setting up a fake pt_regs context, put the kernel thread function pointer and arg into the unused callee-restored registers of 'struct fork_frame'. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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/1471106302-10159-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c18
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
index 4bedbc08e53c..18714a191b2d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@
#include <asm/switch_to.h>
#include <asm/vm86.h>
-asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void) __asm__("ret_from_fork");
-asmlinkage void ret_from_kernel_thread(void) __asm__("ret_from_kernel_thread");
-
/*
* Return saved PC of a blocked thread.
*/
@@ -139,6 +136,7 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
int err;
frame->bp = 0;
+ frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) fork_frame;
p->thread.sp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1);
memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps));
@@ -146,25 +144,17 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
/* kernel thread */
memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
- frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_kernel_thread;
- task_user_gs(p) = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY;
- childregs->ds = __USER_DS;
- childregs->es = __USER_DS;
- childregs->fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
- childregs->bx = sp; /* function */
- childregs->bp = arg;
- childregs->orig_ax = -1;
- childregs->cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl();
- childregs->flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
+ frame->bx = sp; /* function */
+ frame->di = arg;
p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = NULL;
return 0;
}
+ frame->bx = 0;
*childregs = *current_pt_regs();
childregs->ax = 0;
if (sp)
childregs->sp = sp;
- frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
task_user_gs(p) = get_user_gs(current_pt_regs());
p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = NULL;