On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Boris Ostrovsky
<boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After 32-bit syscall rewrite, and specifically after commit 5f310f739b4c
> ("x86/entry/32: Re-implement SYSENTER using the new C path"), the stack
> frame that is passed to xen_sysexit is no longer a "standard" one (i.e.
> it's not pt_regs).
>
> Since we end up calling xen_iret from xen_sysexit we don't need to fix
> up the stack and instead follow entry_SYSENTER_32's IRET path directly
> to xen_iret.
>
> We can do the same thing for compat mode even though stack does not need
> to be fixed. This will allow us to drop usergs_sysret32 paravirt op (in
> the subsequent patch)
Looks generally quite nice. Minor comments below:
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> @@ -308,7 +308,8 @@ sysenter_past_esp:
>
> movl %esp, %eax
> call do_fast_syscall_32
> - testl %eax, %eax
> + /* XEN PV guests always use IRET path */
> + ALTERNATIVE "testl %eax, %eax", "xor %eax, %eax", X86_FEATURE_XENPV
> jz .Lsyscall_32_done
Could we make this a little less subtle:
ALTERNATIVE "testl %eax, %eax; lz .Lsyscall_32_done", "jmp
.Lsyscasll_32_done", X86_FEATURE_XENPV
Borislav, what do you think?
Ditto for the others.
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index e4f8010..0e4fe5b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@
> #define X86_FEATURE_PAUSEFILTER ( 8*32+13) /* AMD filtered pause intercept */
> #define X86_FEATURE_PFTHRESHOLD ( 8*32+14) /* AMD pause filter threshold */
> #define X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL ( 8*32+15) /* Prefer vmmcall to vmcall */
> +#define X86_FEATURE_XENPV ( 8*32+16) /* Xen paravirtual guest */
>
This bit is highly magical and I think we need Borislav's ack.
--Andy
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