From 5cdc683b7d8b3341a3d18e0c5498bc1e4f3fb990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:58:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/32: Explain the stub32_clone logic

The reason for copying of %r8 to %rcx is quite non-obvious.
Add a comment which explains why it is done.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433339930-20880-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S
index 4bb9f7b2bc9c..d0c7b28d5670 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S
@@ -528,6 +528,14 @@ GLOBAL(\label)
 	ALIGN
 GLOBAL(stub32_clone)
 	leaq	sys_clone(%rip), %rax
+	/*
+	 * 32-bit clone API is clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
+	 * 64-bit clone API is clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
+	 * Native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter.
+	 * We need to swap args here. But since tls_val is in fact ignored
+	 * by sys_clone(), we can get away with an assignment
+	 * (arg4 = arg5) instead of a full swap:
+	 */
 	mov	%r8, %rcx
 	jmp	ia32_ptregs_common
 
-- 
GitLab