From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 130/130] Revert "sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch" Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:12:01 -0700 Message-Id: <1440713521-5906-131-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1440713521-5906-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1440713521-5906-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.19.8-ckt6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andy Lutomirski commit 512255a2ad2c832ca7d4de9f31245f73781922d0 upstream. This reverts commit: 2c7577a75837 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch") It was a nice speedup. It's also not quite correct: SYSENTER enables interrupts too early. We can re-add this optimization once the SYSENTER code is beaten into shape, which should happen in 4.3 or 4.4. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/85f56651f59f76624e80785a8fd3bdfdd089a818.1439838962.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h index 751bf4b..d7f3b3b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h @@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ do { \ #else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */ /* frame pointer must be last for get_wchan */ -#define SAVE_CONTEXT "pushq %%rbp ; movq %%rsi,%%rbp\n\t" -#define RESTORE_CONTEXT "movq %%rbp,%%rsi ; popq %%rbp\t" +#define SAVE_CONTEXT "pushf ; pushq %%rbp ; movq %%rsi,%%rbp\n\t" +#define RESTORE_CONTEXT "movq %%rbp,%%rsi ; popq %%rbp ; popf\t" #define __EXTRA_CLOBBER \ , "rcx", "rbx", "rdx", "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11", \ - "r12", "r13", "r14", "r15", "flags" + "r12", "r13", "r14", "r15" #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR #define __switch_canary \ @@ -100,11 +100,7 @@ do { \ #define __switch_canary_iparam #endif /* CC_STACKPROTECTOR */ -/* - * There is no need to save or restore flags, because flags are always - * clean in kernel mode, with the possible exception of IOPL. Kernel IOPL - * has no effect. - */ +/* Save restore flags to clear handle leaking NT */ #define switch_to(prev, next, last) \ asm volatile(SAVE_CONTEXT \ "movq %%rsp,%P[threadrsp](%[prev])\n\t" /* save RSP */ \ -- 1.9.1