linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v2.6.37

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Message-ID: <20101021132159.GA3284@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:21:59 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v2.6.37

Linus,

Please pull the latest x86-asm-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-asm-for-linus

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
H. Peter Anvin (1):
      x86-64, asm: If the assembler supports fxsave64, use it

Jan Beulich (1):
      i386: Make kernel_execve() suitable for stack unwinding


 arch/x86/Makefile             |    8 ++++++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h   |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c |    4 ++--
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 8aa1b59..40668a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -96,8 +96,12 @@ cfi := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_rel_offset $(sp-y)$(comma)0\n.cfi_en
 # is .cfi_signal_frame supported too?
 cfi-sigframe := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_signal_frame\n.cfi_endproc,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1)
 cfi-sections := $(call as-instr,.cfi_sections .debug_frame,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
+
+# does binutils support specific instructions?
+asinstr := $(call as-instr,fxsaveq (%rax),-DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1)
+
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
 
 LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
index a73a8d5..70f105b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static inline void fpu_fxsave(struct fpu *fpu)
 	   uses any extended registers for addressing, a second REX prefix
 	   will be generated (to the assembler, rex64 followed by semicolon
 	   is a separate instruction), and hence the 64-bitness is lost. */
-#if 0
+#ifdef CONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ
 	/* Using "fxsaveq %0" would be the ideal choice, but is only supported
 	   starting with gas 2.16. */
 	__asm__ __volatile__("fxsaveq %0"
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c
index d5e0662..0b0cb5f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ int kernel_execve(const char *filename,
 		  const char *const envp[])
 {
 	long __res;
-	asm volatile ("push %%ebx ; movl %2,%%ebx ; int $0x80 ; pop %%ebx"
+	asm volatile ("int $0x80"
 	: "=a" (__res)
-	: "0" (__NR_execve), "ri" (filename), "c" (argv), "d" (envp) : "memory");
+	: "0" (__NR_execve), "b" (filename), "c" (argv), "d" (envp) : "memory");
 	return __res;
 }
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