[PATCH 0/2] x86/entry: Do context tracking with IRQs off (finally!)

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Sun Mar 06 2016 - 21:30:22 EST


This provides no direct benefit by itself, but it finally lets us
apply some of the speedups that Paolo and possible Rik independently
wrote: we won't need an irqsave/irqrestore pair in the context
tracking code.

It should also let us remove the last callers of exception_enter in
x86 kernels, but that removal should probably wait until I carefully
re-read the page fault code.

Andy Lutomirski (2):
x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate
x86/entry: Do enter_from_user_mode with IRQs off

arch/x86/entry/common.c | 54 ++++++++++++--------------------------
arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 8 +++---
arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 5 +++-
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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