Re: [GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v2.6.33

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed Dec 09 2009 - 14:32:55 EST


On 12/09/09 10:47, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
How does this look?
I would actually prefer it if the calling convention was just made to
match on both x86 and x86-64. Wouldn't it be nice if they both just had

+/* kernel/ioport.c */
+asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned int, struct pt_regs *);
as the prototype, and looked the same?

I realize that right now the 32-bit PTREGSCALL() thing doesn't support
that (very different macros for entry.S x86-32 and -64), but isn't that
just another thing we should try to fix too?

IOW, maybe something like this would be good, and would change the x86-32
calling convention to match the x86-64 one?

NOTE NOTE NOTE! Totally untested. Is the second argument even in %edx? I
don't remember, I didn't check, I'm just throwing this out as a "hey,
maybe something _like_ this can work" patch, and will be immediately
removing it from my machine after sending this email.

I came up with this:

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:17:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86/iopl: make 32bit iopl also get level argument

This makes it match the 64-bit prototype, and simplifies the whole thing.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
index 70497f0..4e567d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
/* Common in X86_32 and X86_64 */
/* kernel/ioport.c */
asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long, unsigned long, int);
+long sys_iopl(unsigned int, struct pt_regs *);

/* kernel/process.c */
int sys_fork(struct pt_regs *);
@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@ asmlinkage int sys_get_thread_area(struct user_desc __user *);
/* X86_32 only */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
/* kernel/ioport.c */
-asmlinkage long sys_iopl(struct pt_regs *);

/* kernel/process_32.c */
int sys_clone(struct pt_regs *);
@@ -71,9 +71,6 @@ int sys_vm86(struct pt_regs *);

/* X86_64 only */

-/* kernel/ioport.c */
-asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned int, struct pt_regs *);
-
/* kernel/process_64.c */
asmlinkage long sys_clone(unsigned long, unsigned long,
void __user *, void __user *,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 50b9c22..737b81f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -725,13 +725,15 @@ END(syscall_badsys)
/*
* System calls that need a pt_regs pointer.
*/
-#define PTREGSCALL(name) \
+#define PTREGSCALL_ARG(name,arg) \
ALIGN; \
ptregs_##name: \
- leal 4(%esp),%eax; \
+ leal 4(%esp),arg; \
jmp sys_##name;
-
-PTREGSCALL(iopl)
+#define PTREGSCALL(name) \
+ PTREGSCALL_ARG(name, %eax)
+
+PTREGSCALL_ARG(iopl,%edx)
PTREGSCALL(fork)
PTREGSCALL(clone)
PTREGSCALL(vfork)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
index b1cbac5..f435e42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long from, unsigned long num, int turn_on)
* on system-call entry - see also fork() and the signal handling
* code.
*/
-static int do_iopl(unsigned int level, struct pt_regs *regs)
+long sys_iopl(unsigned int level, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct thread_struct *t =&current->thread;
unsigned int old = (regs->flags>> 12)& 3;
@@ -122,15 +122,3 @@ static int do_iopl(unsigned int level, struct pt_regs *regs)

return 0;
}
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-long sys_iopl(unsigned int level, struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
- return do_iopl(level, regs);
-}
-#else
-long sys_iopl(struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
- return do_iopl(regs->bx, regs);
-}
-#endif


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