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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2018-01-17 14:53:28 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-01-23 19:57:10 +0100
commit06d7342d8498b7426ab50368436417cdf6ed1923 (patch)
treee1bfd28812a16cb236b89c67468c1a0980518d04
parentb9f8b5935394362e68147cb2792c5f74ff3fc4ca (diff)
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
commit 3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854 upstream. The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has several issues: - The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again. - The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which is not used at all. Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant passed to the macro for the iterations. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index 19ba5ad19c65..4ad41087ce0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -206,16 +206,17 @@ extern char __indirect_thunk_end[];
static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
- unsigned long loops = RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS / 2;
+ unsigned long loops;
asm volatile (ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE
ALTERNATIVE("jmp 910f",
__stringify(__FILL_RETURN_BUFFER(%0, RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS, %1)),
X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE)
"910:"
- : "=&r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
- : "r" (loops) : "memory" );
+ : "=r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
+ : : "memory" );
#endif
}
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* __NOSPEC_BRANCH_H__ */