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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2015-07-15 10:29:35 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2015-07-17 12:50:11 +0200
commit9b6e6a8334d56354853f9c255d1395c2ba570e0a (patch)
tree61707cea588787036c40980b1a6673b7d968b419 /lib/timerqueue.c
parent0e181bb58143cb4a2e8f01c281b0816cd0e4798e (diff)
x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry
Returning to userspace is tricky: IRET can fail, and ESPFIX can rearrange the stack prior to IRET. The NMI nesting fixup relies on a precise stack layout and atomic IRET. Rather than trying to teach the NMI nesting fixup to handle ESPFIX and failed IRET, punt: run NMIs that came from user mode on the normal kernel stack. This will make some nested NMIs visible to C code, but the C code is okay with that. As a side effect, this should speed up perf: it eliminates an RDMSR when NMIs come from user mode. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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