Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v4)

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 06:04:30 EST


Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
+/*
+ * Only returns from a trap or exception to a NMI context (intra-privilege
+ * level near return) to the same SS and CS segments. Should be used
+ * upon trap or exception return when nested over a NMI context so no iret is
+ * issued. It takes care of modifying the eflags, rsp and returning to the
+ * previous function.
+ *
+ * The stack, at that point, looks like :
+ *
+ * 0(rsp) RIP
+ * 8(rsp) CS
+ * 16(rsp) EFLAGS
+ * 24(rsp) RSP
+ * 32(rsp) SS
+ *
+ * Upon execution :
+ * Copy EIP to the top of the return stack
+ * Update top of return stack address
+ * Pop eflags into the eflags register
+ * Make the return stack current
+ * Near return (popping the return address from the return stack)
+ */
+#define INTERRUPT_RETURN_NMI_SAFE pushq %rax; \
+ mov %rsp, %rax; \
+ mov 24+8(%rax), %rsp; \
+ pushq 0+8(%rax); \
+ pushq 16+8(%rax); \
+ movq (%rax), %rax; \
+ popfq; \
+ ret;

I got this right first go? I must be getting good at this...

Anyway, trailing ';', and perhaps use a consistent form for mov (either movq or mov in all three instances).

J
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