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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: vdso32/syscall.S: do not load __USER32_DS to %ss
On 03/24/2015 07:34 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>> Actually, I want to remove the added comment in the code. I don't see
>>> why we should have a specific comment about SS and not about, say, CS,
>>> ESP, or anything else. OK?
>>
>> Ok.
>
> Might be nice to place a more generic description there, which
> registers are expected to be saved by user-space calling in here, etc.

__kernel_vsyscall entry point has the same ABI in any 32-bit vDSO,
the good old int 0x80 calling convention:

syscall# in eax,
params in ebx/ecx/edx/esi/edi/ebp,
all registers are preserved by the syscall.

(I think we don't guarantee that all flags are preserved:
I have a testcase where DF gets cleared).

Each flavor of fast kernel call does necessary massaging to
conform to the ABI. E.g. SYSCALL-based fast call clobbers ecx,
so its vDSO saves/restores ecx on stack.

Do you want a patch which adds such comment into every vDSO?


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