[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 051/118] x86/nmi/64: Remove asm code that saves CR2

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Wed Aug 12 2015 - 05:27:25 EST


3.16.7-ckt16 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 0e181bb58143cb4a2e8f01c281b0816cd0e4798e upstream.

Now that do_nmi saves CR2, we don't need to save it in asm.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 4.0: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used Ben's backport to 4.0 ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 18 ------------------
1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index c0ec84a1890e..5ee10d35d79f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1636,29 +1636,11 @@ end_repeat_nmi:
call save_paranoid
DEFAULT_FRAME 0

- /*
- * Save off the CR2 register. If we take a page fault in the NMI then
- * it could corrupt the CR2 value. If the NMI preempts a page fault
- * handler before it was able to read the CR2 register, and then the
- * NMI itself takes a page fault, the page fault that was preempted
- * will read the information from the NMI page fault and not the
- * origin fault. Save it off and restore it if it changes.
- * Use the r12 callee-saved register.
- */
- movq %cr2, %r12
-
/* paranoidentry do_nmi, 0; without TRACE_IRQS_OFF */
movq %rsp,%rdi
movq $-1,%rsi
call do_nmi

- /* Did the NMI take a page fault? Restore cr2 if it did */
- movq %cr2, %rcx
- cmpq %rcx, %r12
- je 1f
- movq %r12, %cr2
-1:
-
testl %ebx,%ebx /* swapgs needed? */
jnz nmi_restore
nmi_swapgs:
--
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