x86: adds paravirt hook for swapgs
This patch adds paravirt hook for swapgs operation, which is a privileged
operation in x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/processor.h b/include/asm-x86/processor.h
index e6fa06f..72740c6 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/processor.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/processor.h
@@ -435,6 +435,13 @@
#endif
}
+static inline void native_swapgs(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ asm volatile("swapgs" ::: "memory");
+#endif
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
#include <asm/paravirt.h>
#else
@@ -456,6 +463,7 @@
}
#define set_iopl_mask native_set_iopl_mask
+#define SWAPGS swapgs
#endif /* CONFIG_PARAVIRT */
/*