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Author SHA1 Message Date
Brian Gerst ae24ffe5ec x86, 64-bit: Move K8 B step iret fixup to fault entry asm
Move the handling of truncated %rip from an iret fault to the fault
entry path.

This allows x86-64 to use the standard search_extable() function.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <1255357103-5418-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-12 18:29:46 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto fe40c0af3c x86: uaccess: introduce try and catch framework
Impact: introduce new uaccess exception handling framework

Introduce {get|put}_user_try and {get|put}_user_catch as new uaccess exception
handling framework.
{get|put}_user_try begins exception block and {get|put}_user_catch(err) ends
the block and gets err if an exception occured in {get|put}_user_ex() in the
block. The exception is stored thread_info->uaccess_err.

The example usage of this framework is below;
int func()
{
	int err = 0;

	get_user_try {
		get_user_ex(...);
		get_user_ex(...);
		:
	} get_user_catch(err);

	return err;
}

Note: get_user_ex() is not clear the value when an exception occurs, it's
different from the behavior of __get_user(), but I think it doesn't matter.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-23 17:17:36 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 6d48583ba9 x86: unify extable_{32|64}.c
Introduce fixup_exception() on 64-bit and use it in kprobes to
eliminate an #ifdef.

Only 64-bit needs search_extable() due to a stepping bug.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:41 +01:00