locking/rwsem: Fix comment on register clobbering

Document explicitly that %edx can get clobbered on the slow path, on
32-bit kernels. Something I learned the hard way. :-\

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S b/arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S
index a37462a23546f3da1620aa1a770b65a514f3d221..bf2c6074efd2fb97886d974dea2668f8da59c49c 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@
  * there is contention on the semaphore.
  *
  * %eax contains the semaphore pointer on entry. Save the C-clobbered
- * registers (%eax, %edx and %ecx) except %eax whish is either a return
- * value or just clobbered..
+ * registers (%eax, %edx and %ecx) except %eax which is either a return
+ * value or just gets clobbered. Same is true for %edx so make sure GCC
+ * reloads it after the slow path, by making it hold a temporary, for
+ * example see ____down_write().
  */
 
 #define save_common_regs \