Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86-64: Replace vsyscall gettimeofday fallback withint 0xcc

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun May 29 2011 - 15:57:47 EST


On Fri, 27 May 2011, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Now the only way to issue a syscall with side effects through the
> vsyscall page is to call a misaligned instruction. I haven't
> checked for that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h | 4 +++
> arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 6 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +
> arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 4 +++
> arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>

one very tiny nit below.

[...]
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> index b9b6716..d34894e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -872,6 +872,10 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
> set_bit(SYSCALL_VECTOR, used_vectors);
> #endif
>
> + set_system_intr_gate(0xCC, &intcc);
> + set_bit(0xCC, used_vectors);
> + printk(KERN_ERR "intcc gate isntalled\n");

Let's spell the error message correctly:

printk(KERN_ERR "intcc gate installed\n");

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