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x86/entry/64: Further improve paranoid_entry comments
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Sun, 14 Oct 2018 18:38:18 +0000 (11:38 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:30:27 +0000 (12:30 +0200)
Commit:

  16561f27f94e ("x86/entry: Add some paranoid entry/exit CR3 handling comments")

... added some comments.  This improves them a bit:

 - When I first read the new comments, it was unclear to me whether
   they were referring to the case where paranoid_entry interrupted
   other entry code or where paranoid_entry was itself interrupted.
   Clarify it.

 - Remove the EBX comment.  We no longer use EBX as a SWAPGS
   indicator.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c47daa1888dc2298e7e1d3f82bd76b776ea33393.1539542111.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S

index 1d9b4a300c8ceda8970fed215a8bb55e46af6de7..f95dcb209fdffce611edeb0fa79dc2cd83bd9418 100644 (file)
@@ -1189,15 +1189,13 @@ ENTRY(paranoid_entry)
 1:
        /*
         * Always stash CR3 in %r14.  This value will be restored,
-        * verbatim, at exit.  Needed if kernel is interrupted
-        * after switching to the user CR3 value but before
-        * returning to userspace.
+        * verbatim, at exit.  Needed if paranoid_entry interrupted
+        * another entry that already switched to the user CR3 value
+        * but has not yet returned to userspace.
         *
         * This is also why CS (stashed in the "iret frame" by the
         * hardware at entry) can not be used: this may be a return
-        * to kernel code, but with a user CR3 value.  The %ebx flag
-        * for SWAPGS is also unusable for CR3 because there is a
-        * window with a user GS and a kernel CR3.
+        * to kernel code, but with a user CR3 value.
         */
        SAVE_AND_SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 scratch_reg=%rax save_reg=%r14