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x86/asm/entry/64: Use better label name, fix comments
authorDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:18:13 +0000 (18:18 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:57:05 +0000 (09:57 +0100)
commit146b2b097d7a322b64b88a927fc5d870fc79a60b
treeaa889ede3648f82802043b5e5ba6913a345eb0fa
parent06ab9c1ba6a19977432b6906b0eee84804212dc6
x86/asm/entry/64: Use better label name, fix comments

A named label "ret_from_sys_call" implies that there are jumps
to this location from elsewhere, as happens with many other
labels in this file.

But this label is used only by the JMP a few insns above.
To make that obvious, use local numeric label instead.

Improve comments:

"and return regs->ax" isn't too informative. We always return
regs->ax.

The comment suggesting that it'd be cool to use rip relative
addressing for CALL is deleted. It's unclear why that would be
an improvement - we aren't striving to use position-independent
code here. PIC code here would require something like LEA
sys_call_table(%rip),reg + CALL *(reg,%rax*8)...

"iret frame is also incomplete" is no longer true, fix that too.

Also fix typo in comment.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427303896-24023-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S