Re: [PATCH 03/39] x86/entry/32: Load task stack from x86_tss.sp1 in SYSENTER handler

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:48 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 01:49:13PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>> > On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:29 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >    /* Offset from the sysenter stack to tss.sp0 */
>>> > -    DEFINE(TSS_entry_stack, offsetof(struct cpu_entry_area, tss.x86_tss.sp0) -
>>> > +    DEFINE(TSS_entry_stack, offsetof(struct cpu_entry_area, tss.x86_tss.sp1) -
>>> >           offsetofend(struct cpu_entry_area, entry_stack_page.stack));
>>> >
>>>
>>> The code reads differently. Did you perhaps mean TSS_task_stack?
>>
>> Well, the offset name came from TSS_sysenter_sp0, which was the offset
>> from the sysenter_sp0 (==sysenter-stack) to the task stack in TSS, now
>> sysenter_sp0 became entry_stack, because its used for all entry points
>> and not only sysenter. So with the old convention the naming makes still
>> sense, no?
>>
>
> Trying to parse it certainly makes my brain hurt a bit.  This is the
> offset from the entry stack to sp1, where sp1 is the location of the
> pointer to the task stack.
>
> Maybe all the arithmetic could go in entry_32.S and the asm-offset
> name could just be TSS_sp1, just like on 64-bit?
>

I re-read it again.  How about keeping TSS_entry_stack but making it
be the offset from the TSS to the entry stack.  Then do the arithmetic
in asm.