linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 08/13] arch/arm64: adopt prepare_exit_to

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:31:42 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <giladb@...hip.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 08/13] arch/arm64: adopt prepare_exit_to_usermode()
 model from x86

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>> This change is a prerequisite change for TASK_ISOLATION but also
>> stands on its own for readability and maintainability.
>
> I have also been looking into converting the userspace return path from
> assembly to C [1], for the latter two reasons. Based on that, I have a
> couple of comments.
>

>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arm64/entry-deasm

Neat!

In case you want to compare notes, I have a branch with the entire
syscall path on x86 in C except for cleanly separated asm fast path
optimizations:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=x86/entry_compat

Even in Linus' tree, the x86 32-bit syscalls are in C.
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