Commit a3ba9660 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner

x86/entry/32: Clarify register saving in __switch_to_asm()

commit 6690e86b ("sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch")
re-introduced the flags saving on context switch to prevent AC leakage.

The pushf/popf instructions are right among the callee saved register
section, so the comment explaining the save/restore is not entirely
correct.

Add a seperate comment to pushf/popf explaining the reason.
Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent e638ad00
......@@ -718,6 +718,11 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
pushl %ebx
pushl %edi
pushl %esi
/*
* Flags are saved to prevent AC leakage. This could go
* away if objtool would have 32bit support to verify
* the STAC/CLAC correctness.
*/
pushfl
/* switch stack */
......@@ -740,8 +745,9 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
FILL_RETURN_BUFFER %ebx, RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS, X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW
#endif
/* restore callee-saved registers */
/* Restore flags or the incoming task to restore AC state. */
popfl
/* restore callee-saved registers */
popl %esi
popl %edi
popl %ebx
......
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