aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2006-12-07 02:14:02 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-12-07 02:14:02 +0100
commitf95d47caae5302a63d92be9a0292abc90e2a14e1 (patch)
treecfa963975d104c56aba28df6c941759175ed4b98 /arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
parent62111195800d80c66cdc69063ea3145878c99fbf (diff)
[PATCH] i386: Use %gs as the PDA base-segment in the kernel
This patch is the meat of the PDA change. This patch makes several related changes: 1: Most significantly, %gs is now used in the kernel. This means that on entry, the old value of %gs is saved away, and it is reloaded with __KERNEL_PDA. 2: entry.S constructs the stack in the shape of struct pt_regs, and this is passed around the kernel so that the process's saved register state can be accessed. Unfortunately struct pt_regs doesn't currently have space for %gs (or %fs). This patch extends pt_regs to add space for gs (no space is allocated for %fs, since it won't be used, and it would just complicate the code in entry.S to work around the space). 3: Because %gs is now saved on the stack like %ds, %es and the integer registers, there are a number of places where it no longer needs to be handled specially; namely context switch, and saving/restoring the register state in a signal context. 4: And since kernel threads run in kernel space and call normal kernel code, they need to be created with their %gs == __KERNEL_PDA. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/signal.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c b/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
index 43002cfb40c..65d7620eaa0 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigcontext __user *sc, int *peax
X86_EFLAGS_TF | X86_EFLAGS_SF | X86_EFLAGS_ZF | \
X86_EFLAGS_AF | X86_EFLAGS_PF | X86_EFLAGS_CF)
- GET_SEG(gs);
+ COPY_SEG(gs);
GET_SEG(fs);
COPY_SEG(es);
COPY_SEG(ds);
@@ -244,9 +244,7 @@ setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, struct _fpstate __user *fpstate,
{
int tmp, err = 0;
- tmp = 0;
- savesegment(gs, tmp);
- err |= __put_user(tmp, (unsigned int __user *)&sc->gs);
+ err |= __put_user(regs->xgs, (unsigned int __user *)&sc->gs);
savesegment(fs, tmp);
err |= __put_user(tmp, (unsigned int __user *)&sc->fs);