Re: [patch V3 02/20] x86/process: Unify copy_thread_tls()

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:02 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > +int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
> > +                   unsigned long arg, struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls)
> ...
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> ..
> > +#else
> > +       /* Clear all status flags including IF and set fixed bit. */
> > +       frame->flags = X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
> > +#endif
> 
> Hmm. The unification I like, but it also shows these differences that
> I don't remember the reason for.
> 
> Remind me why __switch_to_asm() on 32-bit safes eflags, but we don't
> do it on x86-64?
> 
> The comment just talks about callee-saved registers, but flags isn't
> callee-saved, so there's something else going on.
> 
> This patch clearly doesn't change anything, I'm not complaining about
> the patch at all. I'm just wondering about the odd difference that the
> patch exposes.

See commit: 64604d54d311 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch")

We need "only" make objtool support 32bit :)

Thanks,

	tglx