From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751891AbbCJGAV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:00:21 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f175.google.com ([74.125.82.175]:34529 "EHLO mail-we0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317AbbCJGAS (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:00:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:00:13 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Oleg Nesterov , Frederic Weisbecker , Alexei Starovoitov , Will Drewry , Kees Cook , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v2] x86: entry_64.S: steps towards simpler iret frame handling Message-ID: <20150310060013.GA13704@gmail.com> References: <1425926364-9526-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1425926364-9526-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Denys Vlasenko wrote: > These changes make SYSENTER64 code path save flags and user's > stack pointer in pt_regs->flags and pt_regs->sp, where they belong. > > As a result, we can drop stub_iopl() and thread_struct::usersp. > > Usage of PER_CPU(old_rsp) is reduced to bare minimum. > > FIXUP/RESTORE_TOP_OF_STACK macros are on diet too. > > Changes since v1: on Ingo's request, split into 4 patches intead of 2. Unfortunately I got only 1/4 and 3/4, the other two patches are missing. They are not in my lkml and spam folders either. Note that the missing mails: > Denys Vlasenko (4): > x86: save r11 into pt_regs->flags on SYSCALL64 fastpath > Remove stub_iopl > x86: save user %rsp in pt_regs->sp on SYSCALL64 fastpath > Remove unused stuff 2/4 and 4/4 Have rather short titles, so maybe some spam trap ate them? Prefix them with 'x86: '? Weird. Thanks, Ingo