linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL][3.8] x86: Don't clobber top of pt

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:00:52 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL][3.8] x86: Don't clobber top of pt_regs in
 nested NMI

On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 08:58 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 02.11.12 at 20:19, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > @@ -1842,8 +1851,12 @@ nmi_swapgs:
> >  	SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK
> >  nmi_restore:
> >  	RESTORE_ALL 8
> > +
> > +	/* Pop the extra iret frame */
> > +	addq $(5*8), %rsp
> 
> This could (for code efficiency) and should (for CFI annotation
> correctness) be folded into the RESTORE_ALL above (by
> converting "8" to "6*8").

Hi Jan,

This change never made it in. Would you like to send a patch, or would
you want me to do it?

-- Steve

> 
> Jan
> 
> > +
> >  	/* Clear the NMI executing stack variable */
> > -	movq $0, 10*8(%rsp)
> > +	movq $0, 5*8(%rsp)
> >  	jmp irq_return
> >  	CFI_ENDPROC
> >  END(nmi)
> 


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