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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2015-07-15 10:29:34 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-07-17 12:50:11 +0200
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x86/nmi/64: Remove asm code that saves CR2
Now that do_nmi saves CR2, we don't need to save it in asm. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S17
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 3bb2c4302df1..062feb4eb478 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -1415,28 +1415,11 @@ end_repeat_nmi:
*/
call paranoid_entry
- /*
- * Save off the CR2 register. If we take a page fault in the NMI then
- * it could corrupt the CR2 value. If the NMI preempts a page fault
- * handler before it was able to read the CR2 register, and then the
- * NMI itself takes a page fault, the page fault that was preempted
- * will read the information from the NMI page fault and not the
- * origin fault. Save it off and restore it if it changes.
- * Use the r12 callee-saved register.
- */
- movq %cr2, %r12
-
/* paranoidentry do_nmi, 0; without TRACE_IRQS_OFF */
movq %rsp, %rdi
movq $-1, %rsi
call do_nmi
- /* Did the NMI take a page fault? Restore cr2 if it did */
- movq %cr2, %rcx
- cmpq %rcx, %r12
- je 1f
- movq %r12, %cr2
-1:
testl %ebx, %ebx /* swapgs needed? */
jnz nmi_restore
nmi_swapgs: