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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-03-17 19:37:17 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-24 17:57:31 -0400
commite2a81baf6604a2e08e10c7405b0349106f77c8af (patch)
tree3eaf386316be1f499d92fae213493ec3d6b5b576 /arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
parentaa380c82b83252754a8c11bfc92359bd87cbf710 (diff)
xen: support sysenter/sysexit if hypervisor does
64-bit Xen supports sysenter for 32-bit guests, so support its use. (sysenter is faster than int $0x80 in 32-on-64.) sysexit is still not supported, so we fake it up using iret. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 568c6ccd7ae..5d80d53eaff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -1017,6 +1017,13 @@ ENTRY(kernel_thread_helper)
1017ENDPROC(kernel_thread_helper) 1017ENDPROC(kernel_thread_helper)
1018 1018
1019#ifdef CONFIG_XEN 1019#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
1020/* Xen doesn't set %esp to be precisely what the normal sysenter
1021 entrypoint expects, so fix it up before using the normal path. */
1022ENTRY(xen_sysenter_target)
1023 RING0_INT_FRAME
1024 addl $5*4, %esp /* remove xen-provided frame */
1025 jmp sysenter_past_esp
1026
1020ENTRY(xen_hypervisor_callback) 1027ENTRY(xen_hypervisor_callback)
1021 CFI_STARTPROC 1028 CFI_STARTPROC
1022 pushl $0 1029 pushl $0
@@ -1036,8 +1043,17 @@ ENTRY(xen_hypervisor_callback)
1036 jae 1f 1043 jae 1f
1037 1044
1038 call xen_iret_crit_fixup 1045 call xen_iret_crit_fixup
1046 jmp 2f
1047
10481: cmpl $xen_sysexit_start_crit,%eax
1049 jb 2f
1050 cmpl $xen_sysexit_end_crit,%eax
1051 jae 2f
1052
1053 jmp xen_sysexit_crit_fixup
1039 1054
10401: mov %esp, %eax 1055ENTRY(xen_do_upcall)
10562: mov %esp, %eax
1041 call xen_evtchn_do_upcall 1057 call xen_evtchn_do_upcall
1042 jmp ret_from_intr 1058 jmp ret_from_intr
1043 CFI_ENDPROC 1059 CFI_ENDPROC