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Subject[PATCH] x86/entry/64: Further improve paranoid_entry comments
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Commit 16561f27f94e ("x86/entry: Add some paranoid entry/exit CR3
handling comments") added some comments. This improves them a bit:

- When I first read the new comments, it was unclear to me whether
they were referring to the case where paranoid_entry interrupted
other entry code or where paranoid_entry was itself interrupted.
Clarify it.

- Remove the EBX comment. We no longer use EBX as a SWAPGS
indicator.

Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.come
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 1d9b4a300c8c..f95dcb209fdf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1189,15 +1189,13 @@ ENTRY(paranoid_entry)
1:
/*
* Always stash CR3 in %r14. This value will be restored,
- * verbatim, at exit. Needed if kernel is interrupted
- * after switching to the user CR3 value but before
- * returning to userspace.
+ * verbatim, at exit. Needed if paranoid_entry interrupted
+ * another entry that already switched to the user CR3 value
+ * but has not yet returned to userspace.
*
* This is also why CS (stashed in the "iret frame" by the
* hardware at entry) can not be used: this may be a return
- * to kernel code, but with a user CR3 value. The %ebx flag
- * for SWAPGS is also unusable for CR3 because there is a
- * window with a user GS and a kernel CR3.
+ * to kernel code, but with a user CR3 value.
*/
SAVE_AND_SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 scratch_reg=%rax save_reg=%r14

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