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<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Define 'cpu_current_top_of_stack' for 64-bit code</title>
<updated>2015-05-08T11:50:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denys Vlasenko</name>
<email>dvlasenk@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-04-24T15:31:35+00:00</published>
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32-bit code has PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack).
64-bit code uses somewhat more obscure: PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_tss + TSS_sp0).

Define the 'cpu_current_top_of_stack' macro on CONFIG_X86_64
as well so that the PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack)
expression can be used in both 32-bit and 64-bit code.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429889495-27850-3-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Remove unused 'kernel_stack' per-cpu variable</title>
<updated>2015-05-08T11:49:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denys Vlasenko</name>
<email>dvlasenk@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-04-24T15:31:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429889495-27850-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Stop using PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack)</title>
<updated>2015-05-08T11:43:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denys Vlasenko</name>
<email>dvlasenk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-24T15:31:33+00:00</published>
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PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) is redundant:

  - On the 64-bit build, we can use PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_tss + TSS_sp0).
  - On the 32-bit build, we can use PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack).

PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) will be deleted by a separate change.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429889495-27850-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T20:53:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T20:53:55+00:00</published>
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Pull exec domain removal from Richard Weinberger:
 "This series removes execution domain support from Linux.

  The idea behind exec domains was to support different ABIs.  The
  feature was never complete nor stable.  Let's rip it out and make the
  kernel signal handling code less complicated"

* 'exec_domain_rip_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc: (27 commits)
  arm64: Removed unused variable
  sparc: Fix execution domain removal
  Remove rest of exec domains.
  arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs
  arc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  xtensa: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  xtensa: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
  x86: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  unicore32: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  um: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  tile: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  sparc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  sh: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  s390: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  mn10300: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  microblaze: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m68k: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m32r: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  m32r: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
  frv: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
  ...
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<title>x86: Remove signal translation and exec_domain</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T19:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-13T15:43:51+00:00</published>
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As execution domain support is gone we can remove
signal translation from the signal code and remove
exec_domain from thread_info.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to ASM_THREAD_INFO()</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T19:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-24T18:44:42+00:00</published>
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The THREAD_INFO() macro has a somewhat confusingly generic name,
defined in a generic .h C header file. It also does not make it
clear that it constructs a memory operand for use in assembly
code.

Rename it to ASM_THREAD_INFO() to make it all glaringly
obvious on first glance.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150324184442.GC14760@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/asm/entry/64: Merge the field offset into the THREAD_INFO() macro</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T19:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-24T18:44:11+00:00</published>
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Before:

   TI_sysenter_return+THREAD_INFO(%rsp,3*8),%r10d

After:

   movl    THREAD_INFO(TI_sysenter_return, %rsp, 3*8), %r10d

to turn it into a clear thread_info accessor.

No code changed:

 md5:
   fb4cb2b3ce05d89940ca304efc8ff183  ia32entry.o.before.asm
   fb4cb2b3ce05d89940ca304efc8ff183  ia32entry.o.after.asm

   e39f2958a5d1300158e276e4f7663263  entry_64.o.before.asm
   e39f2958a5d1300158e276e4f7663263  entry_64.o.after.asm

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150324184411.GB14760@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/asm/entry/64: Improve the THREAD_INFO() macro explanation</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T19:57:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-24T18:43:11+00:00</published>
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Explain the background, and add a real example.

Acked-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150324184311.GA14760@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/asm/entry: Get rid of KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T18:42:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denys Vlasenko</name>
<email>dvlasenk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-19T17:17:46+00:00</published>
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PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) was set up in a way where it points
five stack slots below the top of stack.

Presumably, it was done to avoid one "sub $5*8,%rsp"
in syscall/sysenter code paths, where iret frame needs to be
created by hand.

Ironically, none of them benefits from this optimization,
since all of them need to allocate additional data on stack
(struct pt_regs), so they still have to perform subtraction.

This patch eliminates KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET.

PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack) now points directly to top of stack.
pt_regs allocations are adjusted to allocate iret frame as well.
Hopefully we can merge it later with 32-bit specific
PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack) variable...

Net result in generated code is that constants in several insns
are changed.

This change is necessary for changing struct pt_regs creation
in SYSCALL64 code path from MOV to PUSH instructions.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426785469-15125-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry/64: Change the THREAD_INFO() definition to not depend on KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T18:42:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denys Vlasenko</name>
<email>dvlasenk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-19T17:17:45+00:00</published>
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This changes the THREAD_INFO() definition and all its callsites
so that they do not count stack position from
(top of stack - KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET), but from top of stack.

Semi-mysterious expressions THREAD_INFO(%rsp,RIP) - "why RIP??"
are now replaced by more logical THREAD_INFO(%rsp,SIZEOF_PTREGS)
- "calculate thread_info's address using information that
rsp is SIZEOF_PTREGS bytes below top of stack".

While at it, replace "(off)-THREAD_SIZE(reg)" with equivalent
"((off)-THREAD_SIZE)(reg)". The form without parentheses
falsely looks like we invoke THREAD_SIZE() macro.

Improve comment atop THREAD_INFO macro definition.

This patch does not change generated code (verified by objdump).

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426785469-15125-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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