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Commit 84f53788 authored by Denys Vlasenko's avatar Denys Vlasenko Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/asm: Deobfuscate segment.h



This file just defines a number of constants, and a few macros
and inline functions. It is particularly badly written.

For example, it is not trivial to see how descriptors are
numbered (you'd expect that should be easy, right?).

This change deobfuscates it via the following changes:

Group all GDT_ENTRY_foo together (move intervening stuff away).

Number them explicitly: use a number, not PREV_DEFINE+1, +2, +3:
I want to immediately see that GDT_ENTRY_PNPBIOS_CS32 is 18.
Seeing (GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_BASE+6) instead is not useful.

The above change allows to remove GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_BASE
and GDT_ENTRY_PNPBIOS_BASE, which weren't used anywhere else.

After a group of GDT_ENTRY_foo, define all selector values.

Remove or improve some comments. In particular:
Comment deleted as stating the obvious:
    /*
     * The GDT has 32 entries
     */
    #define GDT_ENTRIES 32

"The segment offset needs to contain a RPL. Grr. -AK"
    changed to
"Selectors need to also have a correct RPL (+3 thingy)"

"GDT layout to get 64bit syscall right (sysret hardcodes gdt
offsets)" expanded into a description *how exactly* sysret
hardcodes them.

Patch was tested to compile and not change vmlinux.o
on 32-bit and 64-bit builds (verified with objdump).

Signed-off-by: default avatarDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 65c23774
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