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The effort to make the ASM entry code slim and unified moved the irq stack switching out of the low level ASM code so that the whole return from interrupt work and state handling can be done in C and the ASM code just handles the low level details of entry and exit. This ended up being a suboptimal implementation for various reasons (including tooling). The main pain points are: - The indirect call which is expensive thanks to retpoline - The inability to stay on the irq stack for softirq processing on return from interrupt - The fact that the stack switching code ends up being an easy to target exploit gadget. Prepare for inlining the stack switching logic into the C entry points by providing a ASM macro which contains the guts of the switching mechanism: 1) Store RSP at the top of the irq stack 2) Switch RSP to the irq stack 3) Invoke code 4) Pop the original RSP back Document the unholy asm() logic while at it to reduce the amount of head scratching required a half year from now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210002512.578371068@linutronix.de |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.