Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct pt_regs"

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:03:42AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>       CFI_ESCAPE      0x0f /* DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression */, 6, \
> >>                       0x77 /* DW_OP_breg7 */, 0, \
> >>                       0x06 /* DW_OP_deref */, \
> >> -                     0x08 /* DW_OP_const1u */, SS+8-RBP, \
> >> +                     0x08 /* DW_OP_const1u */, SS+8, \
> >>                       0x22 /* DW_OP_plus */
> >>       /* We entered an interrupt context - irqs are off: */
> >>       TRACE_IRQS_OFF
> >> -
> >>       call \func
> >>       .endm
> >>
> >> @@ -749,10 +719,9 @@ ret_from_intr:
> >>
> >>       /* Restore saved previous stack */
> >>       popq %rsi
> >
> > And then you pop to rsi. Ok that indeed works but perhaps we should keep it symetrical
> > just for clarity? Any reason why we can't reuse rdi here?
> 
> I changed this entire area in v2: basically, I will not change the logic,
> but will add comments explaining what are we doing here, and why.
> (Some minor code changes will be done, not affecting the logic).
> 
> While we are at it, what this  CFI_ESCAPE thing does here?
> As usual, it has no comment :/

I don't know, only Jan Beulich understands those CFI black magic.
BTW he doesn't appears to be Cc, we should add him. 

> 
> -- 
> vda