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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2015-07-15 10:29:34 -0700 |
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committer | Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> | 2015-08-25 16:56:58 +0200 |
commit | 3682103fe7e9170cfb806b7ec9dcb3008db51443 (patch) | |
tree | b4d2a1ecb11657cc403c94214cf316c4bad3b594 /arch | |
parent | 012ace6161d7461c2693aa3023c8c8abd210c882 (diff) | |
download | lwn-3682103fe7e9170cfb806b7ec9dcb3008db51443.tar.gz lwn-3682103fe7e9170cfb806b7ec9dcb3008db51443.zip |
x86/nmi/64: Remove asm code that saves CR2
commit 0e181bb58143cb4a2e8f01c281b0816cd0e4798e upstream.
Now that do_nmi saves CR2, we don't need to save it in asm.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 18 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index 7b22af265d12..fd27e5b86d7b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -1876,29 +1876,11 @@ end_repeat_nmi: call save_paranoid DEFAULT_FRAME 0 - /* - * Save off the CR2 register. If we take a page fault in the NMI then - * it could corrupt the CR2 value. If the NMI preempts a page fault - * handler before it was able to read the CR2 register, and then the - * NMI itself takes a page fault, the page fault that was preempted - * will read the information from the NMI page fault and not the - * origin fault. Save it off and restore it if it changes. - * Use the r12 callee-saved register. - */ - movq %cr2, %r12 - /* paranoidentry do_nmi, 0; without TRACE_IRQS_OFF */ movq %rsp,%rdi movq $-1,%rsi call do_nmi - /* Did the NMI take a page fault? Restore cr2 if it did */ - movq %cr2, %rcx - cmpq %rcx, %r12 - je 1f - movq %r12, %cr2 -1: - testl %ebx,%ebx /* swapgs needed? */ jnz nmi_restore nmi_swapgs: |