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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-06-25 00:19:25 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-08 07:11:12 -0400
commite04e0a630d8b5c621b3a8e70ff20db737d3a5728 (patch)
tree77ba90fcd186fa4fe5f8a8f488961301b13c20b7 /arch
parent478de5a9d691dd0c048ddce62dbec23722515636 (diff)
x86: use __KERNEL_DS as SS when returning to a kernel thread
This is needed when the kernel is running on RING3, such as under Xen. x86_64 has a weird feature that makes it #GP on iret when SS is a null descriptor. This need to be tested on bare metal to make sure it doesn't cause any problems. AMD specs say SS is always ignored (except on iret?). Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index ff15ab552280..6d1101469e97 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ ENTRY(native_irq_enable_syscall_ret)
104 .macro FAKE_STACK_FRAME child_rip 104 .macro FAKE_STACK_FRAME child_rip
105 /* push in order ss, rsp, eflags, cs, rip */ 105 /* push in order ss, rsp, eflags, cs, rip */
106 xorl %eax, %eax 106 xorl %eax, %eax
107 pushq %rax /* ss */ 107 pushq $__KERNEL_DS /* ss */
108 CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 8 108 CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 8
109 /*CFI_REL_OFFSET ss,0*/ 109 /*CFI_REL_OFFSET ss,0*/
110 pushq %rax /* rsp */ 110 pushq %rax /* rsp */