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Subject[tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone
Commit-ID:  7a5a9824c18f93415944c997dc6bb8eecfddd2e7
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7a5a9824c18f93415944c997dc6bb8eecfddd2e7
Author: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:58:50 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 13:41:28 +0200

x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone

Really swap arguments #4 and #5 in stub32_clone instead of
"optimizing" it into a move.

Yes, tls_val is currently unused. Yes, on some CPUs XCHG is a
little bit more expensive than MOV. But a cycle or two on an
expensive syscall like clone() is way below noise floor, and
this optimization is simply not worth the obfuscation of logic.

[ There's also ongoing work on the clone() ABI by Josh Triplett
that will depend on this change later on. ]

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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/1433339930-20880-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S
index d0c7b28..9558dac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S
@@ -529,14 +529,13 @@ GLOBAL(\label)
GLOBAL(stub32_clone)
leaq sys_clone(%rip), %rax
/*
- * 32-bit clone API is clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
- * 64-bit clone API is clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
- * Native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter.
- * We need to swap args here. But since tls_val is in fact ignored
- * by sys_clone(), we can get away with an assignment
- * (arg4 = arg5) instead of a full swap:
+ * The 32-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
+ * The 64-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
+ *
+ * The native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter,
+ * so we need to swap arguments here before calling it:
*/
- mov %r8, %rcx
+ xchg %r8, %rcx
jmp ia32_ptregs_common

ALIGN

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