[tip:x86/asm] x86-64: Use normal ptregs stub for execve

From: tip-bot for Brian Gerst
Date: Wed Jan 27 2010 - 03:40:06 EST


Commit-ID: f19a25c872b20ae4357f72687cf3e7b0da220ee2
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f19a25c872b20ae4357f72687cf3e7b0da220ee2
Author: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:47:33 -0500
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:38:14 -0800

x86-64: Use normal ptregs stub for execve

Execve historically passed regs by value, so it had a seperate stub.
This is no longer true, so change it to use a normal PTREGSCALL stub.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1264434453-2204-1-git-send-email-brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 17 +----------------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 0697ff1..0c31502 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -696,6 +696,7 @@ END(\label)
PTREGSCALL stub_clone, sys_clone, %r8
PTREGSCALL stub_fork, sys_fork, %rdi
PTREGSCALL stub_vfork, sys_vfork, %rdi
+ PTREGSCALL stub_execve, sys_execve, %rcx
PTREGSCALL stub_sigaltstack, sys_sigaltstack, %rdx
PTREGSCALL stub_iopl, sys_iopl, %rsi

@@ -712,22 +713,6 @@ ENTRY(ptregscall_common)
CFI_ENDPROC
END(ptregscall_common)

-ENTRY(stub_execve)
- CFI_STARTPROC
- popq %r11
- CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -8
- CFI_REGISTER rip, r11
- SAVE_REST
- FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK %r11
- movq %rsp, %rcx
- call sys_execve
- RESTORE_TOP_OF_STACK %r11
- movq %rax,RAX(%rsp)
- RESTORE_REST
- jmp int_ret_from_sys_call
- CFI_ENDPROC
-END(stub_execve)
-
/*
* sigreturn is special because it needs to restore all registers on return.
* This cannot be done with SYSRET, so use the IRET return path instead.
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