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Subject[tip:x86/apic] x86/asm/entry/64: Use shorter MOVs from segment registers
Commit-ID:  adeb5537849d9db428fe0ddc3562e5a765a347e2
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/adeb5537849d9db428fe0ddc3562e5a765a347e2
Author: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 15 May 2015 22:39:06 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Sun, 17 May 2015 07:57:54 +0200

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 <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431722346-26585-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 09c3f9e..47b9581 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). */

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