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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/16] x86/asm/64: Use a percpu trampoline stack for IDT entries
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/2017 09:07 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>> @@ -560,6 +560,14 @@ END(irq_entries_start)
>> .macro interrupt func
>> cld
>> ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK
>> +
>> + testb $3, CS(%rsp)
>> + jz 1f
>> + SWAPGS
>> + call switch_to_thread_stack
>> + SWAPGS
>> +1:
>
> This looks really weird to me. SWAPGS, switch stack, and SWAPGS again?
>
> Is this so that we can use some per-cpu data in switch_to_thread_stack,
> and then put GS back so that the normal, non-trampoline entry code can
> do its normal SWAPGS voodoo?
>
>

Yes. I was trying to avoid totally restructuring error_entry here.

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