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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2009-12-09 12:34:40 -0500 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-12-10 15:55:26 -0800 |
| commit | 3bd95dfb182969dc6d2a317c150e0df7107608d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 8624969693d1bb51f06f85c35b7ac84ef41b9aeb /arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | |
| parent | fc380ceed7fe469728ea4acdbda4495ea943ee1c (diff) | |
x86, 64-bit: Move kernel_thread to C
Prepare for merging with 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 49 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index 63bca794c8f..73d9b2c0e21 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -1166,63 +1166,20 @@ bad_gs: jmp 2b .previous -/* - * Create a kernel thread. - * - * C extern interface: - * extern long kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void * arg, unsigned long flags) - * - * asm input arguments: - * rdi: fn, rsi: arg, rdx: flags - */ -ENTRY(kernel_thread) - CFI_STARTPROC - FAKE_STACK_FRAME $child_rip - SAVE_ALL - - # rdi: flags, rsi: usp, rdx: will be &pt_regs - movq %rdx,%rdi - orq kernel_thread_flags(%rip),%rdi - movq $-1, %rsi - movq %rsp, %rdx - - xorl %r8d,%r8d - xorl %r9d,%r9d - - # clone now - call do_fork - movq %rax,RAX(%rsp) - xorl %edi,%edi - - /* - * It isn't worth to check for reschedule here, - * so internally to the x86_64 port you can rely on kernel_thread() - * not to reschedule the child before returning, this avoids the need - * of hacks for example to fork off the per-CPU idle tasks. - * [Hopefully no generic code relies on the reschedule -AK] - */ - RESTORE_ALL - UNFAKE_STACK_FRAME - ret - CFI_ENDPROC -END(kernel_thread) - -ENTRY(child_rip) +ENTRY(kernel_thread_helper) pushq $0 # fake return address CFI_STARTPROC /* * Here we are in the child and the registers are set as they were * at kernel_thread() invocation in the parent. */ - movq %rdi, %rax - movq %rsi, %rdi - call *%rax + call *%rsi # exit mov %eax, %edi call do_exit ud2 # padding for call trace CFI_ENDPROC -END(child_rip) +END(kernel_thread_helper) /* * execve(). This function needs to use IRET, not SYSRET, to set up all state properly. |