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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] x86,64: Simplify save_regs()
>>> On 02.07.11 at 18:29, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> The save_regs function that saves the regs on low level
> irq entry is complicated because of the fact it changes
> its stack in the middle and also because it manipulates
> data allocated in the caller frame and accesses there
> are directly calculated from callee rsp value with the
> return address in the middle of the way.
>
> This complicates the static stack offsets calculation and
> require more dynamic ones. It also needs a save/restore
> of the function's return address.
>
> To simplify and optimize this, turn save_regs() into a
> macro.

So this got pulled out into a function a couple of releases ago,
and now it's being converted back? Wasn't the original patch's
intention to reduce the amount of duplication of generated
code?

> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 44 +++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> index 8a445a0..b6b2e85 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> @@ -297,27 +297,22 @@ ENDPROC(native_usergs_sysret64)
> .endm
>
> /* save partial stack frame */
> - .pushsection .kprobes.text, "ax"
> -ENTRY(save_args)
> - XCPT_FRAME
> + .macro SAVE_ARGS_IRQ
> cld
> - /*
> - * start from rbp in pt_regs and jump over
> - * return address.
> - */
> - movq_cfi rdi, RDI+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi rsi, RSI+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi rdx, RDX+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi rcx, RCX+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi rax, RAX+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi r8, R8+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi r9, R9+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi r10, R10+8-RBP
> - movq_cfi r11, R11+8-RBP
> -
> - leaq -RBP+8(%rsp),%rdi /* arg1 for handler */
> - movq_cfi rbp, 8 /* push %rbp */
> - leaq 8(%rsp), %rbp /* mov %rsp, %ebp */
> + /* start from rbp in pt_regs and jump over */
> + movq_cfi rdi, RDI-RBP
> + movq_cfi rsi, RSI-RBP
> + movq_cfi rdx, RDX-RBP
> + movq_cfi rcx, RCX-RBP
> + movq_cfi rax, RAX-RBP
> + movq_cfi r8, R8-RBP
> + movq_cfi r9, R9-RBP
> + movq_cfi r10, R10-RBP
> + movq_cfi r11, R11-RBP
> +
> + leaq -RBP(%rsp),%rdi /* arg1 for handler */
> + movq_cfi rbp, 0 /* push %rbp */
> + movq %rsp, %rbp
> testl $3, CS(%rdi)
> je 1f
> SWAPGS
> @@ -329,19 +324,14 @@ ENTRY(save_args)
> */
> 1: incl PER_CPU_VAR(irq_count)
> jne 2f
> - popq_cfi %rax /* move return address... */
> mov PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_ptr),%rsp
> EMPTY_FRAME 0
> pushq_cfi %rbp /* backlink for unwinder */
> - pushq_cfi %rax /* ... to the new stack */
> /*
> * We entered an interrupt context - irqs are off:
> */
> 2: TRACE_IRQS_OFF
> - ret
> - CFI_ENDPROC
> -END(save_args)
> - .popsection
> + .endm
>
> ENTRY(save_rest)
> PARTIAL_FRAME 1 REST_SKIP+8
> @@ -791,7 +781,7 @@ END(interrupt)
> /* reserve pt_regs for scratch regs and rbp */
> subq $ORIG_RAX-RBP, %rsp
> CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET ORIG_RAX-RBP
> - call save_args
> + SAVE_ARGS_IRQ
> PARTIAL_FRAME 0

With the above CFI adjustments all looking correct, this PARTIAL_FRAME
directive now is at best redundant, and hence should be removed.

Jan

> call \func
> .endm






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