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authorDavid Woodhouse2024-12-05 15:05:08 +0000
committerIngo Molnar2024-12-06 10:41:58 +0100
commit207bdf7f72ae8b1764de294ae59bdf5b015082bd (patch)
tree41dc9c6755175cd006568d1de75e57ea712525ac
parentfe8ec69baa9dbaf37cae4f3458d2d5e09bf6d87e (diff)
x86/kexec: Clean up and document register use in relocate_kernel_64.S
Add more comments explaining what each register contains, and save the preserve_context flag to a non-clobbered register sooner, to keep things simpler. No change in behavior intended. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241205153343.3275139-3-dwmw2@infradead.org
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S18
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index 1236f25fc8d1..92478e2e254f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(relocate_kernel)
movq %r10, CP_PA_SWAP_PAGE(%r11)
movq %rdi, CP_PA_BACKUP_PAGES_MAP(%r11)
+ /* Save the preserve_context to %r11 as swap_pages clobbers %rcx. */
+ movq %rcx, %r11
+
/* Switch to the identity mapped page tables */
movq %r9, %cr3
@@ -116,6 +119,14 @@ SYM_CODE_END(relocate_kernel)
SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(identity_mapped)
UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK
+ /*
+ * %rdi indirection page
+ * %rdx start address
+ * %r11 preserve_context
+ * %r12 host_mem_enc_active
+ * %r13 original CR4 when relocate_kernel() was invoked
+ */
+
/* set return address to 0 if not preserving context */
pushq $0
/* store the start address on the stack */
@@ -170,8 +181,6 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(identity_mapped)
wbinvd
.Lsme_off:
- /* Save the preserve_context to %r11 as swap_pages clobbers %rcx. */
- movq %rcx, %r11
call swap_pages
/*
@@ -183,13 +192,14 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(identity_mapped)
movq %cr3, %rax
movq %rax, %cr3
+ testq %r11, %r11 /* preserve_context */
+ jnz .Lrelocate
+
/*
* set all of the registers to known values
* leave %rsp alone
*/
- testq %r11, %r11
- jnz .Lrelocate
xorl %eax, %eax
xorl %ebx, %ebx
xorl %ecx, %ecx