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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2017-06-06 14:31:21 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-06-13 08:56:51 +0200
commitcbe0317bf10acf1f41811108ed0f9a316103c0f3 (patch)
tree655cc9cbfaf0398d57c592d3e8742bad793d22be /arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
parente585513b76f7b05d08ca3fb250fed11f6ba46ee5 (diff)
x86/asm: Fix comment in return_from_SYSCALL_64()
On x86-64 __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT depends on paging mode now. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170606113133.22974-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 4a4c0834f965..a9a8027a6c0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ return_from_SYSCALL_64:
* If width of "canonical tail" ever becomes variable, this will need
* to be updated to remain correct on both old and new CPUs.
*
- * Change top 16 bits to be the sign-extension of 47th bit
+ * Change top bits to match most significant bit (47th or 56th bit
+ * depending on paging mode) in the address.
*/
shl $(64 - (__VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT+1)), %rcx
sar $(64 - (__VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT+1)), %rcx