Commit 1ddc6f3c authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar
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x86/asm/entry/64: Improve the THREAD_INFO() macro explanation



Explain the background, and add a real example.

Acked-by: default avatarDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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/20150324184311.GA14760@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent d56fe4bf
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@@ -206,10 +206,29 @@ static inline unsigned long current_stack_pointer(void)
	_ASM_SUB $(THREAD_SIZE),reg ;

/*
 * ASM operand which evaluates to thread_info address
 * if it is known that "reg" is exactly "off" bytes below stack top.
 * Example (fetch thread_info->fieldname):
 *  mov TI_fieldname+THREAD_INFO(reg, off),%eax
 * ASM operand which evaluates to a 'thread_info' address of
 * the current task, if it is known that "reg" is exactly "off"
 * bytes below the top of the stack currently.
 *
 * ( The kernel stack's size is known at build time, it is usually
 *   2 or 4 pages, and the bottom  of the kernel stack contains
 *   the thread_info structure. So to access the thread_info very
 *   quickly from assembly code we can calculate down from the
 *   top of the kernel stack to the bottom, using constant,
 *   build-time calculations only. )
 *
 * For example, to fetch the current thread_info->flags value into %eax
 * on x86-64 defconfig kernels, in syscall entry code where RSP is
 * currently at exactly SIZEOF_PTREGS bytes away from the top of the
 * stack:
 *
 *      mov TI_flags+THREAD_INFO(%rsp, SIZEOF_PTREGS), %eax
 *
 * will translate to:
 *
 *      8b 84 24 b8 c0 ff ff      mov    -0x3f48(%rsp), %eax
 *
 * which is below the current RSP by almost 16K.
 */
#define THREAD_INFO(reg, off) ((off)-THREAD_SIZE)(reg)