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author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2009-12-09 12:34:40 -0500 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-12-10 15:55:26 -0800 |
commit | 3bd95dfb182969dc6d2a317c150e0df7107608d3 (patch) | |
tree | 8624969693d1bb51f06f85c35b7ac84ef41b9aeb /arch/x86/kernel | |
parent | fc380ceed7fe469728ea4acdbda4495ea943ee1c (diff) | |
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x86, 64-bit: Move kernel_thread to C
Prepare for merging with 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 49 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 31 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 32 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index 63bca79..73d9b2c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -1166,63 +1166,20 @@ bad_gs: jmp 2b .previous -/* - * Create a kernel thread. - * - * C extern interface: - * extern long kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void * arg, unsigned long flags) - * - * asm input arguments: - * rdi: fn, rsi: arg, rdx: flags - */ -ENTRY(kernel_thread) - CFI_STARTPROC - FAKE_STACK_FRAME $child_rip - SAVE_ALL - - # rdi: flags, rsi: usp, rdx: will be &pt_regs - movq %rdx,%rdi - orq kernel_thread_flags(%rip),%rdi - movq $-1, %rsi - movq %rsp, %rdx - - xorl %r8d,%r8d - xorl %r9d,%r9d - - # clone now - call do_fork - movq %rax,RAX(%rsp) - xorl %edi,%edi - - /* - * It isn't worth to check for reschedule here, - * so internally to the x86_64 port you can rely on kernel_thread() - * not to reschedule the child before returning, this avoids the need - * of hacks for example to fork off the per-CPU idle tasks. - * [Hopefully no generic code relies on the reschedule -AK] - */ - RESTORE_ALL - UNFAKE_STACK_FRAME - ret - CFI_ENDPROC -END(kernel_thread) - -ENTRY(child_rip) +ENTRY(kernel_thread_helper) pushq $0 # fake return address CFI_STARTPROC /* * Here we are in the child and the registers are set as they were * at kernel_thread() invocation in the parent. */ - movq %rdi, %rax - movq %rsi, %rdi - call *%rax + call *%rsi # exit mov %eax, %edi call do_exit ud2 # padding for call trace CFI_ENDPROC -END(child_rip) +END(kernel_thread_helper) /* * execve(). This function needs to use IRET, not SYSRET, to set up all state properly. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 83019f9..92484c2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -59,8 +59,6 @@ asmlinkage extern void ret_from_fork(void); DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, old_rsp); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char, is_idle); -unsigned long kernel_thread_flags = CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED; - static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(idle_notifier); void idle_notifier_register(struct notifier_block *n) @@ -231,6 +229,35 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs) show_trace(NULL, regs, (void *)(regs + 1), regs->bp); } +/* + * This gets run with %si containing the + * function to call, and %di containing + * the "args". + */ +extern void kernel_thread_helper(void); + +/* + * Create a kernel thread + */ +int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags) +{ + struct pt_regs regs; + + memset(®s, 0, sizeof(regs)); + + regs.si = (unsigned long) fn; + regs.di = (unsigned long) arg; + + regs.orig_ax = -1; + regs.ip = (unsigned long) kernel_thread_helper; + regs.cs = __KERNEL_CS; + regs.flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF; + + /* Ok, create the new process.. */ + return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, ~0UL, ®s, 0, NULL, NULL); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread); + void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task) { if (dead_task->mm) { diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c index a102976..9fafaf8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c @@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mcount); #endif -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread); - EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_1); EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_2); EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_4); |