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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S index 70eadb0ea5fa..858b555e274b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -103,6 +103,16 @@ ENDPROC(native_usergs_sysret64) /* * 64-bit SYSCALL instruction entry. Up to 6 arguments in registers. * + * This is the only entry point used for 64-bit system calls. The + * hardware interface is reasonably well designed and the register to + * argument mapping Linux uses fits well with the registers that are + * available when SYSCALL is used. + * + * SYSCALL instructions can be found inlined in libc implementations as + * well as some other programs and libraries. There are also a handful + * of SYSCALL instructions in the vDSO used, for example, as a + * clock_gettimeofday fallback. + * * 64-bit SYSCALL saves rip to rcx, clears rflags.RF, then saves rflags to r11, * then loads new ss, cs, and rip from previously programmed MSRs. * rflags gets masked by a value from another MSR (so CLD and CLAC |