linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] x86_64: Make int3 non-magical

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:37:45 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] x86_64: Make int3 non-magical

int3 uses IST and the paranoid gsbase path.  Neither is necessary,
although the IST stack may currently be necessary to avoid stack
overruns.

Clean up IRQ stacks, make them NMI safe, teach idtentry to use
irqstacks if requested, and move int3 to the IRQ stack.

This prepares us to return from int3 using RET.  While we could,
in principle, return from an IST entry using RET, making that work
seems likely to be much messier and more fragile than this approach.

Andy Lutomirski (3):
  x86/entry/64: Refactor IRQ stacks and make then NMI-safe
  x86/entry/64: Teach idtentry to use the IRQ stack
  x86/entry/64: Move #BP from IST to the IRQ stack

 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S    | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |  4 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c      | 26 ++++++-------
 4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

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2.4.3

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