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authorDenys Vlasenko <[email protected]>2015-05-15 22:39:06 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2015-05-17 07:57:54 +0200
commitadeb5537849d9db428fe0ddc3562e5a765a347e2 (patch)
treeec54db194dbab58ffedea8737f9c712cd1abb9f5
parente839004b49c571e20006092cbe9da8f2c95d2e71 (diff)
x86/asm/entry/64: Use shorter MOVs from segment registers
The "movw %ds,%cx" instruction needs a 0x66 prefix, while "movl %ds,%ecx" does not. The difference is that latter form (on 64-bit CPUs) overwrites the entire %ecx, not only its lower half. But subsequent code doesn't depend on the value of upper half of %ecx, so we can safely use the shorter instruction. The new code is also faster than the old one - now we don't depend on the old value of %ecx, but this code fragment is not performance-critical so it does not matter much. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Will Drewry <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 09c3f9e0e07e..47b95813dc37 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1190,17 +1190,17 @@ ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback)
/*CFI_REL_OFFSET ds,DS*/
CFI_REL_OFFSET r11,8
CFI_REL_OFFSET rcx,0
- movw %ds,%cx
+ movl %ds,%ecx
cmpw %cx,0x10(%rsp)
CFI_REMEMBER_STATE
jne 1f
- movw %es,%cx
+ movl %es,%ecx
cmpw %cx,0x18(%rsp)
jne 1f
- movw %fs,%cx
+ movl %fs,%ecx
cmpw %cx,0x20(%rsp)
jne 1f
- movw %gs,%cx
+ movl %gs,%ecx
cmpw %cx,0x28(%rsp)
jne 1f
/* All segments match their saved values => Category 2 (Bad IRET). */