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| author |   Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> | 2007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100 |
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| committer |   Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100 |
| commit | 7b3552024380f306a6c50d5105d18d9d4258fa4e (patch) | |
| tree | 904a408768b216be7f759b4a190809f851a914d5 /include/asm-i386/segment.h | |
| parent | [PATCH] i386: vMI timer patches (diff) | |
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[PATCH] i386: Profile pc badness
Profile_pc was broken when using paravirtualization because the
assumption the kernel was running at CPL 0 was violated, causing
bad logic to read a random value off the stack.
The only way to be in kernel lock functions is to be in kernel
code, so validate that assumption explicitly by checking the CS
value. We don't want to be fooled by BIOS / APM segments and
try to read those stacks, so only match KERNEL_CS.
I moved some stuff in segment.h to make it prettier.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386/segment.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-i386/segment.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/segment.h b/include/asm-i386/segment.h index 3c796af33776..065f10bfa487 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/segment.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/segment.h @@ -83,14 +83,8 @@ * The GDT has 32 entries */ #define GDT_ENTRIES 32 - #define GDT_SIZE (GDT_ENTRIES * 8) -/* Matches __KERNEL_CS and __USER_CS (they must be 2 entries apart) */ -#define SEGMENT_IS_FLAT_CODE(x) (((x) & 0xec) == GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS * 8) -/* Matches PNP_CS32 and PNP_CS16 (they must be consecutive) */ -#define SEGMENT_IS_PNP_CODE(x) (((x) & 0xf4) == GDT_ENTRY_PNPBIOS_BASE * 8) - /* Simple and small GDT entries for booting only */ #define GDT_ENTRY_BOOT_CS 2 @@ -134,4 +128,17 @@ #ifndef CONFIG_PARAVIRT #define get_kernel_rpl() 0 #endif +/* + * Matching rules for certain types of segments. + */ + +/* Matches only __KERNEL_CS, ignoring PnP / USER / APM segments */ +#define SEGMENT_IS_KERNEL_CODE(x) (((x) & 0xfc) == GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS * 8) + +/* Matches __KERNEL_CS and __USER_CS (they must be 2 entries apart) */ +#define SEGMENT_IS_FLAT_CODE(x) (((x) & 0xec) == GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS * 8) + +/* Matches PNP_CS32 and PNP_CS16 (they must be consecutive) */ +#define SEGMENT_IS_PNP_CODE(x) (((x) & 0xf4) == GDT_ENTRY_PNPBIOS_BASE * 8) + #endif |