From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v2.6.37
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:21:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101021132159.GA3284@elte.hu> (raw)
Linus,
Please pull the latest x86-asm-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-asm-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
H. Peter Anvin (1):
x86-64, asm: If the assembler supports fxsave64, use it
Jan Beulich (1):
i386: Make kernel_execve() suitable for stack unwinding
arch/x86/Makefile | 8 ++++++--
arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 8aa1b59..40668a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -96,8 +96,12 @@ cfi := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_rel_offset $(sp-y)$(comma)0\n.cfi_en
# is .cfi_signal_frame supported too?
cfi-sigframe := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_signal_frame\n.cfi_endproc,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1)
cfi-sections := $(call as-instr,.cfi_sections .debug_frame,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
+
+# does binutils support specific instructions?
+asinstr := $(call as-instr,fxsaveq (%rax),-DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1)
+
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
index a73a8d5..70f105b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static inline void fpu_fxsave(struct fpu *fpu)
uses any extended registers for addressing, a second REX prefix
will be generated (to the assembler, rex64 followed by semicolon
is a separate instruction), and hence the 64-bitness is lost. */
-#if 0
+#ifdef CONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ
/* Using "fxsaveq %0" would be the ideal choice, but is only supported
starting with gas 2.16. */
__asm__ __volatile__("fxsaveq %0"
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c
index d5e0662..0b0cb5f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_i386_32.c
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ int kernel_execve(const char *filename,
const char *const envp[])
{
long __res;
- asm volatile ("push %%ebx ; movl %2,%%ebx ; int $0x80 ; pop %%ebx"
+ asm volatile ("int $0x80"
: "=a" (__res)
- : "0" (__NR_execve), "ri" (filename), "c" (argv), "d" (envp) : "memory");
+ : "0" (__NR_execve), "b" (filename), "c" (argv), "d" (envp) : "memory");
return __res;
}
next reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 13:21 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-10-21 20:16 ` [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v2.6.37 Linus Torvalds
2010-10-21 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
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