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x86/entry: Convert INT 0x80 emulation to IDTENTRY

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There is no real reason to have a separate ASM entry point implementation
for the legacy INT 0x80 syscall emulation on 64-bit.

IDTENTRY provides all the functionality needed with the only difference
that it does not:

  - save the syscall number (AX) into pt_regs::orig_ax
  - set pt_regs::ax to -ENOSYS

Both can be done safely in the C code of an IDTENTRY before invoking any of
the syscall related functions which depend on this convention.

Aside of ASM code reduction this prepares for detecting and handling a
local APIC injected vector 0x80.

[ kirill.shutemov: More verbose comments ]
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.0+
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Thomas Gleixner 2023-12-04 11:31:39 +03:00 • committed by Dave Hansen
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