On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 05:03:20PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 04:09:49PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:

quoted

@@ -613,13 +609,14 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_switch_to)
  */
 ret_fast_syscall:
 	disable_irq				// disable interrupts
+	str	x0, [sp, #S_X0]			// returned x0
 	ldr	x1, [tsk, #TI_FLAGS]		// re-check for syscall tracing
 	and	x2, x1, #_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK
 	cbnz	x2, ret_fast_syscall_trace
 	and	x2, x1, #_TIF_WORK_MASK
-	cbnz	x2, fast_work_pending
+	cbnz	x2, work_pending
 	enable_step_tsk x1, x2
-	kernel_exit 0, ret = 1
+	kernel_exit 0
 ret_fast_syscall_trace:
 	enable_irq				// enable interrupts
 	b	__sys_trace_return

There is another str x0 in __sys_trace_return which I think we could
remove.

Hmm, I don't think we can remove that. It's needed on the slowpath to
update the pt_regs with either -ENOSYS (for __ni_sys_trace) or the
syscall return value from the blr in __sys_trace.

What we can do instead is change the branch above to branch to
__sys_trace_return_skipped. Patch below.

Will

--->8

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 2a5e64ccc991..088322ff1ba0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S

@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ ret_fast_syscall:
        kernel_exit 0
 ret_fast_syscall_trace:
        enable_irq                              // enable interrupts
-       b       __sys_trace_return
+       b       __sys_trace_return_skipped      // we already saved x0