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Message-ID: <55716CDA.4020007@citrix.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2015 10:33:14 +0100
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
CC:	<lguest@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <x86@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments

On 05/06/15 03:58, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> Subject: x86: rename save_fl/restore_fl paravirt ops to highlight eflags.
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> 
> As the comment in arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h says:
> 
> 	 * Get/set interrupt state.  save_fl and restore_fl are only
> 	 * expected to use X86_EFLAGS_IF; all other bits
> 	 * returned from save_fl are undefined, and may be ignored by
> 	 * restore_fl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
[...]
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -1074,8 +1074,8 @@ void xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement(void)
>  	 * percpu area for all cpus, so make use of it. Note that for
>  	 * PVH we want to use native IRQ mechanism. */
>  	if (have_vcpu_info_placement && !xen_pvh_domain()) {
> -		pv_irq_ops.save_fl = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_save_fl_direct);
> -		pv_irq_ops.restore_fl = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_restore_fl_direct);
> +		pv_irq_ops.save_eflags_if = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_save_fl_direct);
> +		pv_irq_ops.restore_eflags_if = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_restore_fl_direct);
>  		pv_irq_ops.irq_disable = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_irq_disable_direct);
>  		pv_irq_ops.irq_enable = __PV_IS_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_irq_enable_direct);
>  		pv_mmu_ops.read_cr2 = xen_read_cr2_direct;
> @@ -1102,8 +1102,8 @@ static unsigned xen_patch(u8 type, u16 clobbers, void *insnbuf,
>  	switch (type) {
>  		SITE(pv_irq_ops, irq_enable);
>  		SITE(pv_irq_ops, irq_disable);
> -		SITE(pv_irq_ops, save_fl);
> -		SITE(pv_irq_ops, restore_fl);
> +		SITE(pv_irq_ops, save_eflags_if);
> +		SITE(pv_irq_ops, restore_eflags_if);
>  #undef SITE
>  
>  	patch_site:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/irq.c b/arch/x86/xen/irq.c

Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>

Thanks.

David
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