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author | Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> | 2015-07-15 10:29:35 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2015-07-17 12:50:11 +0200 |
commit | 9b6e6a8334d56354853f9c255d1395c2ba570e0a (patch) | |
tree | 61707cea588787036c40980b1a6673b7d968b419 /lib/timerqueue.c | |
parent | 0e181bb58143cb4a2e8f01c281b0816cd0e4798e (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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