linux/arch
Denys Vlasenko b87cf63e2a x86/asm/entry: Add comments about various syscall instructions
SYSCALL/SYSRET and SYSENTER/SYSEXIT have weird semantics.
Moreover, they differ in 32- and 64-bit mode.

What is saved? What is not? Is rsp set? Are interrupts disabled?
People tend to not remember these details well enough.

This patch adds comments which explain in detail
what registers are modified by each of these instructions.

The comments are placed immediately before corresponding
entry and exit points.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a94b98b63527797c871a81402ff5060b18fa880a.1424989793.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-04 22:50:51 +01:00
..
alpha asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
arc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2015-02-18 08:49:20 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-03-01 12:00:25 -08:00
arm64 ARM: SoC fixes for 3.20-rc1 2015-02-27 16:18:33 -08:00
avr32 asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2015-02-21 12:59:04 -08:00
c6x all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
cris CRIS changes for 3.20 2015-02-15 18:02:02 -08:00
frv mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
hexagon all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
ia64 asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
m32r mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
m68k mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
metag metag: Fix KSTK_EIP() and KSTK_ESP() macros 2015-02-24 12:54:21 +00:00
microblaze all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2015-02-21 19:41:38 -08:00
mn10300 mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
nios2 nios2 for v3.20 2015-02-17 14:23:42 -08:00
openrisc asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
parisc mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
powerpc The clock framework changes for 3.20 contain the usual driver additions, 2015-02-21 12:30:30 -08:00
s390 mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
score all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
sh asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
sparc asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
tile tile: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:37 -08:00
um all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
unicore32 mm: vmalloc: pass additional vm_flags to __vmalloc_node_range() 2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
x86 x86/asm/entry: Add comments about various syscall instructions 2015-03-04 22:50:51 +01:00
xtensa asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig