[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>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c b/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
index 43002cf..65d7620 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
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 @@
{
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);