[tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Use better label name, fix comments

tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-27T11:47:37Z

Commit-ID: 146b2b097d7a322b64b88a927fc5d870fc79a60b
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/146b2b097d7a322b64b88a927fc5d870fc79a60b
Author: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:18:13 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:57:05 +0100

x86/asm/entry/64: Use better label name, fix comments

A named label "ret_from_sys_call" implies that there are jumps
to this location from elsewhere, as happens with many other
labels in this file.

But this label is used only by the JMP a few insns above.
To make that obvious, use local numeric label instead.

Improve comments:

"and return regs->ax" isn't too informative. We always return
regs->ax.

The comment suggesting that it'd be cool to use rip relative
addressing for CALL is deleted. It's unclear why that would be
an improvement - we aren't striving to use position-independent
code here. PIC code here would require something like LEA
sys_call_table(%rip),reg + CALL *(reg,%rax*8)...

"iret frame is also incomplete" is no longer true, fix that too.

Also fix typo in comment.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427303896-24023-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index bf9afad..9988c4b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -258,16 +258,15 @@ system_call_fastpath:
andl $__SYSCALL_MASK,%eax
cmpl $__NR_syscall_max,%eax
#endif
- ja ret_from_sys_call /* and return regs->ax */
+ ja 1f /* return -ENOSYS (already in pt_regs->ax) */
movq %r10,%rcx
- call *sys_call_table(,%rax,8) # XXX: rip relative
+ call *sys_call_table(,%rax,8)
movq %rax,RAX(%rsp)
+1:
/*
- * Syscall return path ending with SYSRET (fast path)
- * Has incompletely filled pt_regs, iret frame is also incomplete.
+ * Syscall return path ending with SYSRET (fast path).
+ * Has incompletely filled pt_regs.
*/
-ret_from_sys_call:
-
LOCKDEP_SYS_EXIT
DISABLE_INTERRUPTS(CLBR_NONE)
TRACE_IRQS_OFF
@@ -1407,7 +1406,7 @@ ENTRY(nmi)
* NMI.
*/

- /* Use %rdx as out temp variable throughout */
+ /* Use %rdx as our temp variable throughout */
pushq_cfi %rdx
CFI_REL_OFFSET rdx, 0