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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2008-06-25 00:19:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 13:13:15 +0200 |
| commit | d75cd22fdd5f7d203fb60014d426942df33dd9a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 0613fca9d594eab9a0679f80510fa11b48b31571 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | e04e0a630d8b5c621b3a8e70ff20db737d3a5728 (diff) | |
x86/paravirt: split sysret and sysexit
Don't conflate sysret and sysexit; they're different instructions with
different semantics, and may be in use at the same time (at least
within the same kernel, depending on whether its an Intel or AMD
system).
sysexit - just return to userspace, does no register restoration of
any kind; must explicitly atomically enable interrupts.
sysret - reloads flags from r11, so no need to explicitly enable
interrupts on 64-bit, responsible for restoring usermode %gs
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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