sched/x86: Pass kernel thread parameters in 'struct fork_frame'
Instead of setting up a fake pt_regs context, put the kernel thread
function pointer and arg into the unused callee-restored registers
of 'struct fork_frame'.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471106302-10159-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index bf8f221..b75a8bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -240,35 +240,34 @@
* A newly forked process directly context switches into this address.
*
* eax: prev task we switched from
+ * ebx: kernel thread func (NULL for user thread)
+ * edi: kernel thread arg
*/
ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
pushl %eax
call schedule_tail
popl %eax
+ testl %ebx, %ebx
+ jnz 1f /* kernel threads are uncommon */
+
+2:
/* When we fork, we trace the syscall return in the child, too. */
movl %esp, %eax
call syscall_return_slowpath
jmp restore_all
-END(ret_from_fork)
-ENTRY(ret_from_kernel_thread)
- pushl %eax
- call schedule_tail
- popl %eax
- movl PT_EBP(%esp), %eax
- call *PT_EBX(%esp)
- movl $0, PT_EAX(%esp)
-
+ /* kernel thread */
+1: movl %edi, %eax
+ call *%ebx
/*
- * Kernel threads return to userspace as if returning from a syscall.
- * We should check whether anything actually uses this path and, if so,
- * consider switching it over to ret_from_fork.
+ * A kernel thread is allowed to return here after successfully
+ * calling do_execve(). Exit to userspace to complete the execve()
+ * syscall.
*/
- movl %esp, %eax
- call syscall_return_slowpath
- jmp restore_all
-ENDPROC(ret_from_kernel_thread)
+ movl $0, PT_EAX(%esp)
+ jmp 2b
+END(ret_from_fork)
/*
* Return to user mode is not as complex as all this looks,