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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/23] x86, kaiser: prepare assembly for entry/exit CR3 switching
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On 11/01/2017 02:01 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>
>> + pushq %rdi
>> + SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 scratch_reg=%rdi
>> + popq %rdi
>
> Can you please have a macro variant which does:
>
> SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3_PUSH reg=%rdi
>
> So the pushq/popq is inside the macro. This has two reasons:
>
> 1) If KAISER=n the pointless pushq/popq go away
>
> 2) We need a boottime switch for that stuff, so we better have all
> related code in the various macros in order to patch it in/out.

After Boris's comments, these push/pops are totally unnecessary. We
just delay the CR3 until after we stashed off pt_regs and are allowed to
clobber things.

> Also, please wrap these macros in #ifdef KAISER right away and provide the
> stubs as well. It does not make sense to have them in patch 7 when patch 1
> introduces them.

Will do.

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