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[4/5] x86/ELF: also record FS/GS bases in elf_core_save_regs()

Message ID 518a5f88-3ae4-a3ed-ab13-caaf7e8a7295@suse.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series x86: introduce read_sregs() and elf_core_save_regs() adjustments | expand

Commit Message

Jan Beulich Sept. 28, 2020, 12:06 p.m. UTC
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Comments

Andrew Cooper Sept. 28, 2020, 1:04 p.m. UTC | #1
On 28/09/2020 13:06, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Any idea why this wasn't done before?  At a minimum, I'd be tempted to
put a sentence in the commit message saying "no idea why this wasn't
done before".

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

>
> --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/x86_64/elf.h
> +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/x86_64/elf.h
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  #ifndef __X86_64_ELF_H__
>  #define __X86_64_ELF_H__
>  
> +#include <asm/msr.h>
>  #include <asm/regs.h>
>  
>  typedef struct {
> @@ -59,8 +60,8 @@ static inline void elf_core_save_regs(EL
>      asm volatile("pushfq; popq %0" :"=m"(core_regs->rflags));
>      asm volatile("movq %%rsp,%0" : "=m"(core_regs->rsp));
>      asm volatile("movl %%ss, %%eax;" :"=a"(core_regs->ss));
> -    /* thread_fs not filled in for now */
> -    /* thread_gs not filled in for now */
> +    rdmsrl(MSR_FS_BASE, core_regs->thread_fs);
> +    rdmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, core_regs->thread_gs);
>      core_regs->ds = read_sreg(ds);
>      core_regs->es = read_sreg(es);
>      core_regs->fs = read_sreg(fs);
>
Jan Beulich Sept. 28, 2020, 1:38 p.m. UTC | #2
On 28.09.2020 15:04, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 28/09/2020 13:06, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> 
> Any idea why this wasn't done before?

No. My only guess is laziness, in the sense of "I'll do it later" and
then forgetting.

>  At a minimum, I'd be tempted to
> put a sentence in the commit message saying "no idea why this wasn't
> done before".

Sure, done.

> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Thanks.

Jan
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--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/x86_64/elf.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/x86_64/elf.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ 
 #ifndef __X86_64_ELF_H__
 #define __X86_64_ELF_H__
 
+#include <asm/msr.h>
 #include <asm/regs.h>
 
 typedef struct {
@@ -59,8 +60,8 @@  static inline void elf_core_save_regs(EL
     asm volatile("pushfq; popq %0" :"=m"(core_regs->rflags));
     asm volatile("movq %%rsp,%0" : "=m"(core_regs->rsp));
     asm volatile("movl %%ss, %%eax;" :"=a"(core_regs->ss));
-    /* thread_fs not filled in for now */
-    /* thread_gs not filled in for now */
+    rdmsrl(MSR_FS_BASE, core_regs->thread_fs);
+    rdmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, core_regs->thread_gs);
     core_regs->ds = read_sreg(ds);
     core_regs->es = read_sreg(es);
     core_regs->fs = read_sreg(fs);