x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
authorDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:54:08 +0000 (20:54 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 10 Jun 2015 06:42:13 +0000 (08:42 +0200)
commit1536bb46fac7672ef04aaaa6a3b07848314263bc
tree374654346281c1a2787852bed4d54cf06b03878f
parentaee4b013a71666f11ffeac11ab45bb7c6e0e394d
x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()

Here it is not obvious why we load pt_regs->cx to %esi etc.
Lets improve comments.

Explain that here we combine two things: first, we reload
registers since some of them are clobbered by the C function we
just called; and we also convert 32-bit syscall params to 64-bit
C ABI, because we are going to jump back to syscall dispatch
code.

Move reloading of 6th argument into the macro instead of having
it after each of two macro invocations.

No actual code changes here.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433876051-26604-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S