On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:22 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Something like so; it boots; but I could've made some horrible mistake
> (again).
This actually looks much better to me.
Maybe it's more lines (I didn't check), but it's a lot simpler in that
now the magic of the int3 stack doesn't get exposed to anything else.
We *could* also make this kernel-mode-only do_int3() be a special
function, and do something like
# args: pt_regs pointer (no error code for int3)
movl %esp,%eax
# allocate a bit of extra room on the stack, so that
'kernel_int3' can move the pt_regs
subl $8,%esp
call kernel_int3
movl %eax,%esp
and not do any stack switching magic in the asm code AT ALL. We'd do
struct pt_regs *kernel_int3(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
..
return regs;
}
and now you the rule for call emulation ends up being that you need to
"memmove()" the ptregs up and down properly, and return the new
pt_regs pointer.
Hmm? That would simplify the asm code further, but some people might
find it objectionable?
Linus
