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x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32

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Impact: cleanup

On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily.  It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places.  Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly.  Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.

While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.

This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Tejun Heo 2009-02-09 22:17:40 +09:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
parent f0d96110f9
commit d9a89a26e0
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@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ do { \
pr_reg[7] = regs->ds & 0xffff; \
pr_reg[8] = regs->es & 0xffff; \
pr_reg[9] = regs->fs & 0xffff; \
savesegment(gs, pr_reg[10]); \
pr_reg[10] = get_user_gs(regs); \
pr_reg[11] = regs->orig_ax; \
pr_reg[12] = regs->ip; \
pr_reg[13] = regs->cs & 0xffff; \