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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c index 761d4ed47ef..9d94995e967 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c @@ -678,21 +678,26 @@ struct task_struct fastcall * __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct tas __unlazy_fpu(prev_p); /* - * Reload esp0, LDT and the page table pointer: + * Reload esp0. */ load_esp0(tss, next); /* - * Load the per-thread Thread-Local Storage descriptor. + * Save away %fs and %gs. No need to save %es and %ds, as + * those are always kernel segments while inside the kernel. + * Doing this before setting the new TLS descriptors avoids + * the situation where we temporarily have non-reloadable + * segments in %fs and %gs. This could be an issue if the + * NMI handler ever used %fs or %gs (it does not today), or + * if the kernel is running inside of a hypervisor layer. */ - load_TLS(next, cpu); + savesegment(fs, prev->fs); + savesegment(gs, prev->gs); /* - * Save away %fs and %gs. No need to save %es and %ds, as - * those are always kernel segments while inside the kernel. + * Load the per-thread Thread-Local Storage descriptor. */ - asm volatile("mov %%fs,%0":"=m" (prev->fs)); - asm volatile("mov %%gs,%0":"=m" (prev->gs)); + load_TLS(next, cpu); /* * Restore %fs and %gs if needed. |