x86/asm/entry: Document and clean up the enable_sep_cpu() and syscall32_cpu_init...

[mirror_ubuntu-bionic-kernel.git] / arch / x86 / kernel / cpu / common.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 7a3dfb1db78d240c4acc20e6209ea708cbb0135e..d79f139871e0496fc9ed11c367d64497e3f571ab 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -960,37 +960,53 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
+# ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
 /* May not be __init: called during resume */
 static void syscall32_cpu_init(void)
 {
-       /* Load these always in case some future AMD CPU supports
-          SYSENTER from compat mode too. */
+       /*
+        * Always load these, in case some future 64-bit CPU supports
+        * SYSENTER from compat mode too:
+        */
        wrmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, (u64)__KERNEL_CS);
        wrmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, 0ULL);
        wrmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, (u64)ia32_sysenter_target);
 
        wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, ia32_cstar_target);
 }
-#endif         /* CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION */
-#endif         /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
+# endif
+#endif
 
+/*
+ * Set up the CPU state needed to execute SYSENTER/SYSEXIT instructions
+ * on 32-bit kernels:
+ */
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 void enable_sep_cpu(void)
 {
-       int cpu = get_cpu();
-       struct tss_struct *tss = &per_cpu(cpu_tss, cpu);
+       struct tss_struct *tss;
+       int cpu;
 
-       if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP)) {
-               put_cpu();
-               return;
-       }
+       cpu = get_cpu();
+       tss = &per_cpu(cpu_tss, cpu);
+
+       if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP))
+               goto out;
+
+       /*
+        * The struct::SS1 and tss_struct::SP1 fields are not used by the hardware,
+        * we cache the SYSENTER CS and ESP values there for easy access:
+        */
 
        tss->x86_tss.ss1 = __KERNEL_CS;
+       wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, tss->x86_tss.ss1, 0);
+
        tss->x86_tss.sp1 = (unsigned long)tss + offsetofend(struct tss_struct, SYSENTER_stack);
-       wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, __KERNEL_CS, 0);
        wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, tss->x86_tss.sp1, 0);
-       wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, (unsigned long) ia32_sysenter_target, 0);
+
+       wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, (unsigned long)ia32_sysenter_target, 0);
+
+out:
        put_cpu();
 }
 #endif