From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753306AbbCJSGW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:06:22 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:35741 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753186AbbCJSGQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:06:16 -0400 From: Andy Lutomirski To: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov , Oleg Nesterov , Denys Vlasenko , Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH 3/3] x86_32: Document our abuse of ss1 and sp1 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:06:00 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.3.0 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This has confused me for a while. Now that I figured it out, document it. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index fc6d8d0d8d53..b26208998b7c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -209,9 +209,24 @@ struct x86_hw_tss { unsigned short back_link, __blh; unsigned long sp0; unsigned short ss0, __ss0h; - unsigned long sp1; - /* ss1 caches MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS: */ - unsigned short ss1, __ss1h; + + /* + * We don't use ring 1, so sp1 and ss1 are convenient scratch + * spaces in the same cacheline as sp0. We use them to cache + * some MSR values to avoid unnecessary wrmsr instructions. + * + * We use SYSENTER_ESP to find sp0 and for the NMI emergency + * stack, but we need to context switch it because we do + * horrible things to the kernel stack in vm86 mode. + * + * We use SYSENTER_CS to disable sysenter in vm86 mode to avoid + * corrupting the stack if we went through the sysenter path + * from vm86 mode. + */ + unsigned long sp1; /* MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP */ + unsigned short ss1; /* MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS */ + + unsigned short __ss1h; unsigned long sp2; unsigned short ss2, __ss2h; unsigned long __cr3; -- 2.3.0