On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 11:20 PM Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com> wrote:
>
> It is sometimes beneficial to have a restartable sequence - very few
> instructions which if they are preempted jump to a predefined point.
>
> To provide such functionality on x86-64, we use an empty REX-prefix
> (opcode 0x40) as an indication for instruction in such a sequence. Before
> calling the schedule IRQ routine, if the "magic" prefix is found, we
> call a routine to adjust the instruction pointer. It is expected that
> this opcode is not in common use.
>
> The following patch will make use of this function. Since there are no
> other users (yet?), the patch does not bother to create a general
> infrastructure and API that others can use for such sequences. Yet, it
> should not be hard to make such extension later.
The following patch does not use it. Can you update this?
> +asmlinkage __visible void restart_kernel_rseq(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> + if (user_mode(regs) || *(u8 *)regs->ip != KERNEL_RESTARTABLE_PREFIX)
> + return;
else?
I suspect something is missing here. Or I'm very confused.
> +}
