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Commit d75cd22f authored by Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar Jeremy Fitzhardinge Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/paravirt: split sysret and sysexit



Don't conflate sysret and sysexit; they're different instructions with
different semantics, and may be in use at the same time (at least
within the same kernel, depending on whether its an Intel or AMD
system).

sysexit - just return to userspace, does no register restoration of
    any kind; must explicitly atomically enable interrupts.

sysret - reloads flags from r11, so no need to explicitly enable
    interrupts on 64-bit, responsible for restoring usermode %gs

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent e04e0a63
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