Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Lacombe <> | Subject | Re: [x86] do_arch_prctl - bug? | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:44:11 +0100 |
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I look at the Intel docs (vol. 3A) again, and see that in 64 bits mode the hidden field gs.base are physically mapped to the MSR, so it seems that in order to load gs.base we don't need to load gs (like in 32 bits mode), but rather we only need to load the MSR.
So I don't understand the purpose of load_gs_index in that context :
if (doit) { load_gs_index(0); ret = checking_wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, addr); }
Why don't we only load the MSR ? What is the purpose of calling load_gs_index with 0 as parameter ?
Thanks in advance for your response,
Eric
> ENTRY(native_load_gs_index) > CFI_STARTPROC > pushf > CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 8 > DISABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_ANY | ~(CLBR_RDI)) > SWAPGS > gs_change: > movl %edi,%gs > 2: mfence /* workaround */ > SWAPGS > popf > CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -8 > ret > CFI_ENDPROC > ENDPROC(native_load_gs_index)
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