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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> | 2015-04-02 12:41:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-04-03 08:30:44 +0200 |
| commit | ff8287f36381deff729aa4e7b02296a080519fd0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b59f060d0c1589edf8463bdad414592a3f1ef17 /arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | |
| parent | d9dc64f30abe42f71bc7e9eb9d38c41006cf39f9 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-ff8287f36381deff729aa4e7b02296a080519fd0.zip op-kernel-dev-ff8287f36381deff729aa4e7b02296a080519fd0.tar.gz | |
x86/asm/entry/32: Improve a TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING comment
At Denys' request, clean up the comment describing stack padding
in the 32-bit sysenter path.
No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/41fee7bb8490ae840fe7ef2699f9c2feb932e729.1428002830.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S index 4c8cc34..effa279 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S @@ -395,10 +395,13 @@ sysenter_past_esp: /*CFI_REL_OFFSET cs, 0*/ /* * Push current_thread_info()->sysenter_return to the stack. - * A tiny bit of offset fixup is necessary - 4*4 means the 4 words - * pushed above; +8 corresponds to copy_thread's esp0 setting. + * A tiny bit of offset fixup is necessary: TI_sysenter_return + * is relative to thread_info, which is at the bottom of the + * kernel stack page. 4*4 means the 4 words pushed above; + * TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING takes us to the top of the stack; + * and THREAD_SIZE takes us to the bottom. */ - pushl_cfi ((TI_sysenter_return)-THREAD_SIZE+TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING+4*4)(%esp) + pushl_cfi ((TI_sysenter_return) - THREAD_SIZE + TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING + 4*4)(%esp) CFI_REL_OFFSET eip, 0 pushl_cfi %eax |
