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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-02-09 22:17:40 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-10 00:41:58 +0100
commitd9a89a26e02ef9ed03f74a755a8b4d8f3a066622 (patch)
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x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32
Impact: cleanup On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily. It's not saved and restored on kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task switch but there are few other places. Currently, it's done by calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly. Define get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead. While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c. This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0a5df5f82fb9..508b6b57d0c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ static u16 get_segment_reg(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long offset)
if (offset != offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, gs))
retval = *pt_regs_access(task_pt_regs(task), offset);
else {
- retval = task->thread.gs;
if (task == current)
- savesegment(gs, retval);
+ retval = get_user_gs(task_pt_regs(task));
+ else
+ retval = task_user_gs(task);
}
return retval;
}
@@ -126,13 +127,10 @@ static int set_segment_reg(struct task_struct *task,
break;
case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, gs):
- task->thread.gs = value;
if (task == current)
- /*
- * The user-mode %gs is not affected by
- * kernel entry, so we must update the CPU.
- */
- loadsegment(gs, value);
+ set_user_gs(task_pt_regs(task), value);
+ else
+ task_user_gs(task) = value;
}
return 0;