Impact: cleanup
1) .p2align 4 and .align 16 are the same meaning
(until a.out format for i386 is used which is
not our case for CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 anyway)
2) having 15 as max allowed bytes to be skipped
does not make sense on modulo 16
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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[ small cleanup, use __stringify(), etc. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Stephen Rothwell reported:
|Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning:
|
|In file included from drivers/char/epca.c:49:
|drivers/char/digiFep1.h:7:1: warning: "GLOBAL" redefined
|In file included from include/linux/linkage.h:5,
| from include/linux/kernel.h:11,
| from arch/x86/include/asm/system.h:10,
| from arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:17,
| from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
| from include/linux/list.h:6,
| from include/linux/module.h:9,
| from drivers/char/epca.c:29:
|arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h:55:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
|
|Probably introduced by commit 95695547a7
|("x86: asm linkage - introduce GLOBAL macro") from the x86 tree.
Any assembler specific snippets being placed in headers
are to be protected by __ASSEMBLY__. Fixed.
Also move __ALIGN definition under the same protection as well.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
There was an attempt to bring build-time checking for
missed ENTRY_X86/END_X86 and KPROBE... pairs. Using
them will add messy in code. Get just rid of them.
This commit could be easily restored if the need appear
in future.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the code is time critical and this entry is called
from other places we use ENTRY to have it globally defined
and especially aligned.
Contrary we have some snippets which are size
critical. So we use plane ".globl name; name:"
directive. Introduce GLOBAL macro for this.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to take the pointer as an argument instead of relying on
the assumption that the pt_regs structure overlaps the function
arguments.
Drop the use of regparm(1) due to concern about gcc bugs, and to move
in the direction of the eventual removal of regparm(0) for asmlinkage.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make ENTRY()/END() macros more capable
It's usefull to catch unbalanced or messed or mixed declarations of ENTRY and
KPROBES. These macros would help a bit.
For example the following code would compile without problems
ENTRY_X86(mcount)
retq
END_X86(mcount)
But if you forget and mess the following form
ENTRY_X86(mcount)
retq
END(mcount)
ENTRY_X86(ftrace_caller)
The assembler will issue the following message:
Error: ENTRY_X86/KPROBE_X86 unbalanced,missed,mixed
Actually the checking is performed at every _X86 macro
so maybe it's good idea to put ENTRY_KPROBE_FINAL_X86
at the end of .S file to be sure you didn't miss anything.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch is the result of an automatic script that consolidates the
format of all the headers in include/asm-x86/.
The format:
1. No leading underscore. Names with leading underscores are reserved.
2. Pathname components are separated by two underscores. So we can
distinguish between mm_types.h and mm/types.h.
3. Everything except letters and numbers are turned into single
underscores.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
notrace signals that a function should not be traced. Most of the
time this is used by tracers to annotate code that cannot be
traced - it's in a volatile state (such as in user vdso context
or NMI context) or it's in the tracer internals.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's really a pretty ugly thing to need, and some day it will hopefully
be obviated by teaching gcc about the magic calling conventions for the
low-level system call code, but in the meantime we can at least add big
honking comments about why we need these insane and strange macros.
I took my comments from my version of the macro, but I ended up deciding
to just pick Roland's version of the actual code instead (with his
prettier syntax that uses vararg macros). Thus the previous two commits
that actually implement it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler
clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions
is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call
optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use
stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent.
Other optimizations can do it too.
Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the
compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all
the manifestations of this issue that crop up.
More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument
variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original
stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler
tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but
it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
introduce the "asmregparm" calling convention: for functions
implemented in assembly with a fixed regparm input parameters
calling convention.
mark the semaphore and rwsem slowpath functions with that.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Remove definitions of FASTCALL/fastcall from linkage_32 as compiled with
-regparm=3 by default since 2.6.20 and should no longer be needed.
CONFIG X86_64 and CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 are mutually exclusive as found
in Kconfig.cpu so it should be fine to test them separately.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the
header install make rules
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cyrill Gorcunov