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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/39] x86/entry/32: Load task stack from x86_tss.sp1 in SYSENTER handler
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> On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:29 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:
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> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> We want x86_tss.sp0 point to the entry stack later to use
> it as a trampoline stack for other kernel entry points
> besides SYSENTER.

Makes sense: sp0 will be the entry stack. But:

>
>
> /* Offset from the sysenter stack to tss.sp0 */
> - DEFINE(TSS_entry_stack, offsetof(struct cpu_entry_area, tss.x86_tss.sp0) -
> + DEFINE(TSS_entry_stack, offsetof(struct cpu_entry_area, tss.x86_tss.sp1) -
> offsetofend(struct cpu_entry_area, entry_stack_page.stack));
>

The code reads differently. Did you perhaps mean TSS_task_stack?

Also, the “top of task stack” is a bit weird on 32-bit due to vm86. Can you document *exactly* what goes in sp1?

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