[PATCH] x86/kexec: Add a comment to relocate_kernel() for better readability

From: Kai Huang
Date: Wed Jun 07 2023 - 06:40:12 EST


The reason to save %rcx to %r11 before calling swap_pages isn't that
obvious w/o looking into the swap_pages itself. Add a comment to
improve the readability.

Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index 56cab1bb25f5..97deae3c5e6c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(identity_mapped)
wbinvd
1:

+ /*
+ * Save the preserve_context to %r11 as
+ * swap_pages clobbers %rcx.
+ */
movq %rcx, %r11
call swap_pages


base-commit: 409bf2895d71bb68bc5b8589036e5ed1ca30bada
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2.40.1