x86/asm/entry/32: Improve a TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING comment

At Denys' request, clean up the comment describing stack padding
in the 32-bit sysenter path.

No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/41fee7bb8490ae840fe7ef2699f9c2feb932e729.1428002830.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 4c8cc34e6d68f41f1bf49f393ef76c8848ae63d0..effa2793febadd05ee7be3b4ae622c2a2d9881e4 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -395,10 +395,13 @@ sysenter_past_esp:
        /*CFI_REL_OFFSET cs, 0*/
        /*
         * Push current_thread_info()->sysenter_return to the stack.
-        * A tiny bit of offset fixup is necessary - 4*4 means the 4 words
-        * pushed above; +8 corresponds to copy_thread's esp0 setting.
+        * A tiny bit of offset fixup is necessary: TI_sysenter_return
+        * is relative to thread_info, which is at the bottom of the
+        * kernel stack page.  4*4 means the 4 words pushed above;
+        * TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING takes us to the top of the stack;
+        * and THREAD_SIZE takes us to the bottom.
         */
-       pushl_cfi ((TI_sysenter_return)-THREAD_SIZE+TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING+4*4)(%esp)
+       pushl_cfi ((TI_sysenter_return) - THREAD_SIZE + TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING + 4*4)(%esp)
        CFI_REL_OFFSET eip, 0
 
        pushl_cfi %eax