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author | Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> | 2015-05-15 22:39:06 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2015-05-17 07:57:54 +0200 |
commit | adeb5537849d9db428fe0ddc3562e5a765a347e2 (patch) | |
tree | ec54db194dbab58ffedea8737f9c712cd1abb9f5 /tools/perf/scripts/python/call-graph-from-postgresql.py | |
parent | e839004b49c571e20006092cbe9da8f2c95d2e71 (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]>
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