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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v4)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:04:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48087217.50305@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080417164116.GB23351@Krystal>

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> +/*
> + * Only returns from a trap or exception to a NMI context (intra-privilege
> + * level near return) to the same SS and CS segments. Should be used
> + * upon trap or exception return when nested over a NMI context so no iret is
> + * issued. It takes care of modifying the eflags, rsp and returning to the
> + * previous function.
> + *
> + * The stack, at that point, looks like :
> + *
> + * 0(rsp)  RIP
> + * 8(rsp)  CS
> + * 16(rsp) EFLAGS
> + * 24(rsp) RSP
> + * 32(rsp) SS
> + *
> + * Upon execution :
> + * Copy EIP to the top of the return stack
> + * Update top of return stack address
> + * Pop eflags into the eflags register
> + * Make the return stack current
> + * Near return (popping the return address from the return stack)
> + */
> +#define INTERRUPT_RETURN_NMI_SAFE	pushq %rax;		\
> +					mov %rsp, %rax;		\
> +					mov 24+8(%rax), %rsp;	\
> +					pushq 0+8(%rax);	\
> +					pushq 16+8(%rax);	\
> +					movq (%rax), %rax;	\
> +					popfq;			\
> +					ret;
>   

I got this right first go?  I must be getting good at this...

Anyway, trailing ';', and perhaps use a consistent form for mov (either 
movq or mov in all three instances).

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17 16:41 [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v4) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-18 10:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-04-19 21:29   ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v7) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-19 22:10     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-19 22:40       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-20  0:33       ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v8) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-20 19:02         ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v9) Mathieu Desnoyers

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