Re: [PATCH 16/16] x86/entry/64: Move the IST stacks into cpu_entry_area

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Nov 23 2017 - 10:25:58 EST


On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
<aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/21/2017 10:38 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> /* May not be marked __init: used by software suspend */
>>> void syscall_init(void)
>>> {
>>> @@ -1627,7 +1637,7 @@ void cpu_init(void)
>>> * set up and load the per-CPU TSS
>>> */
>>> if (!oist->ist[0]) {
>>> - char *estacks = per_cpu(exception_stacks, cpu);
>>> + char *estacks = get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->exception_stacks;
>>>
>>> for (v = 0; v < N_EXCEPTION_STACKS; v++) {
>>> estacks += exception_stack_sizes[v];
>>
>> This generates a new build warning:
>>
>> /home/mingo/tip/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c: In function âsyscall_initâ:
>> /home/mingo/tip/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1443:6: warning: unused variable âcpuâ [-Wunused-variable]
>> int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>>
>> because 'cpu' is now unused in the !CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION part.
>>
>> The naive fix is something like the patch below, untested.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ingo
>>
>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
>> index c7f3a0a19dce..557bad9f4179 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
>> @@ -1440,24 +1440,26 @@ void syscall_init(void)
>> extern char _entry_trampoline[];
>> extern char entry_SYSCALL_64_trampoline[];
>>
>> - int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>> -
>> wrmsr(MSR_STAR, 0, (__USER32_CS << 16) | __KERNEL_CS);
>> wrmsrl(MSR_LSTAR, (unsigned long)get_cpu_entry_area(smp_processor_id())->entry_trampoline + (entry_SYSCALL_64_trampoline - _entry_trampoline));
>
> It would be better to use 'cpu' variable here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's what I did :)