On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:55:31PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <[email protected]> > > When ftrace_regs_caller was created, it was designed to preserve flags as > much as possible as it needed to act just like a breakpoint triggered on the > same location. But the design is over complicated as it treated all > operations as modifying flags. But push, mov and lea do not modify flags. > This means the code can become more simplified by allowing flags to be > stored further down. > > Making ftrace_regs_caller simpler will also be useful in implementing fentry > logic. > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]> > --- > arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S | 45 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S > index 73d61a62649d..8ca33d9806ac 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_32.S > @@ -55,23 +55,30 @@ WEAK(ftrace_stub) > END(ftrace_caller) > > ENTRY(ftrace_regs_caller) > - pushf /* push flags before compare (in cs location) */ > - > /* > * i386 does not save SS and ESP when coming from kernel. > * Instead, to get sp, ®s->sp is used (see ptrace.h). > * Unfortunately, that means eflags must be at the same location > * as the current return ip is. We move the return ip into the > - * ip location, and move flags into the return ip location. > - */ > - pushl 4(%esp) /* save return ip into ip slot > */ > + * regs->ip location, and move flags into the return ip location. > + */ > + pushl $__KERNEL_CS > + pushl 4(%esp) /* Save the return ip */ > + > + /* temporarily save flags in the orig_ax location */ > + pushf > > - pushl $0 /* Load 0 into orig_ax */ > pushl %gs > pushl %fs > pushl %es > pushl %ds > pushl %eax > + > + /* move flags into the location of where the return ip was */ > + movl 5*4(%esp), %eax > + movl $0, (%esp) /* Load 0 into orig_ax */
This writes a 0 into regs->ax instead of regs->orig_ax. -- Josh
