Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:11:25 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/18] x86/asm/64: Merge the fast and slow SYSRET paths |
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 01:26:39AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > They did almost the same thing. Remove a bunch of pointless > instructions (mostly hidden in macros) and reduce cognitive load by > merging them. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> > --- > arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S > index 9dafafa3e0ec..c855ee91a3a5 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S > @@ -220,10 +220,9 @@ entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath: > TRACE_IRQS_ON /* user mode is traced as IRQs on */ > movq RIP(%rsp), %rcx > movq EFLAGS(%rsp), %r11 > - RESTORE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_RCX_R11 > - movq RSP(%rsp), %rsp > + addq $6*8, %rsp /* skip extra regs -- they were preserved */ > UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY > - USERGS_SYSRET64 > + jmp .Lpop_c_regs_except_rcx_r11_and_sysret > > 1: > /* > @@ -315,6 +314,7 @@ syscall_return_via_sysret: > /* rcx and r11 are already restored (see code above) */ > UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY > POP_EXTRA_REGS > +.Lpop_c_regs_except_rcx_r11_and_sysret:
.Lpop_regs_sysret I guess.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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