Re: [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Context-track syscalls before enabling interrupts

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Aug 19 2015 - 11:54:45 EST


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This fixes a couple minor holes if we took an IRQ very early in syscall
>> processing:
>>
>
> The patch is buggy. v2 coming soon, hopefully.
>

No, let's drop this for now. It would be straightforward but quite
messy to fix it, and I don't want to introduce further
incomprehensibility into the asm. I'll send the warning change
instead, and we can fix it better for 4.4

--Andy
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